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en-wikipedia-org-4430		Ionian School (philosophy) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1802	341	59	Ionian School (philosophy) Wikipedia This article is about the ancient Greek school of thought. Map of ancient Ionia, on the eastern side of the Aegean Sea. The Ionian school of Pre-Socratic philosophy was centred in Miletus, Ionia in the 6th century BC. Miletus and its environs was a thriving mercantile melting pot of current ideas of the time.[1] The Ionian School included such thinkers as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, and Archelaus.[2] The collective affinity of this group was first acknowledged by Aristotle who called them physiologoi (φυσιολόγοι),[3] meaning 'those who discoursed on nature'. Aristotle wrote in Metaphysics, "Thales, the founder of this school of philosophy [Ionian School], says the permanent entity is water (which is why he also propounded that the earth floats on water). 475 BCE) disagreed with Thales, Anaximander, and Pythagoras about the nature of the ultimate substance and claimed instead that everything is derived from the Greek classical element fire, rather than from air, water, or earth. Ancient Greek schools of philosophy	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4430.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4430.txt