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…showed last 75 words of 998 total…accept the popular conception of the earth (or, in this case, its immediate support) stretching down so far that the problem almost disappeared . . . . Final comments: * Thales is often credited with trying to explain everything in terms of water. (Either everything is made of water, or everything came from water.) * This is a kind of monism: the reduction of a host of complex phenomena to a single, simple basis. This is a prevailing philosophical theme