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This paper discusses how three pre-Socratic philosophers--Empedocles, Pythogoras and Thales-- answer the basic metaphysical question of the nature of reality, of what is real and what makes material reality real.

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"Among the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, Empedocles, Pythagoras and Thales are significant because they supply an anchor of reference for the key questions of metaphysics, namely those concerning what is real, which entails contemplation of reality and of the cosmos and by extension humankind's place in and perception of it. Issues of what reality and being are, how they can be identified and how they are best understood are at the core of metaphysics. Answering questions that arise from them may overlap and converge which is why the core..."

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