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The Natural Philosophers
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weird6 thing about frogs.
Sophie could possibly accept that a frog consisted of earth and water, in which case the earth must consist of more than one kind of substance. If the earth consisted of a lot of different substances, it was obviously possible that earth and water together could produce a frog. That is, if the earth and the water went via frog spawn7 and tadpoles8. Because a frog could not just grow out of a cabbage patch, however much you watered it.
When she got home from school that day there was a fat envelope waiting for her in the mailbox. Sophie hid in the den2 just as she had done the other days.
THE PHILOSOPHERS' PROJECT
Here we are again! We'll go directly to today's lesson without detours9 around white rabbits and the like.
I'll outline very broadly the way people have thought about philosophy, from the ancient Greeks right up to our own day. But we'll take things in their correct order.
Since some philosophers lived in a different age--and perhaps in a completely different culture from ours--it is a good idea to try and see what each philosopher's project is. By this I mean that we must try to grasp precisely10 what it is that each particular philosopher is especially concerned with finding out. One philosopher might want to know how plants and animals came into being. Another might want to know whether there is a God or whether man has an immortal11 soul.
Once we have determined12 what a particular philosopher's project is, it is easier to follow his line of thought, since no one philosopher concerns himself with the whole of philosophy.
I said his line of thought--referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men. Women of the past were
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