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Question 61

Historians of philosophy often identify which broad change in the work of many Presocratic thinkers?

  1. A move toward natural explanations of the cosmosCorrect answer
  2. A common rejection of every religious practice
  3. Agreement on a single theory of matter
  4. A return to myth as the only acceptable account

Explanation

Many Presocratics tried to account for the cosmos through natural processes and basic principles open to rational inquiry. This does not mean that every such thinker rejected religion or that they all agreed on one theory, as the stronger claim suggests.

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