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Thales of Miletus
Anaximander of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus
Xenophanes of Colophon
Heraclitus
Parmenides of Elea
The Eleatics: Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus
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