GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Thales is recognized for breaking from the use of mythology to explain the world and the universe, instead explaining natural objects and phenomena by offering naturalistic theories and hypotheses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Heraclitus: Change and the Logos 540–c. 480 BCE) argued that an ever-changing world around us is held together through a unifying principle that he called the logos. Heraclitus was born into an aristocratic family from the Ionian city of Ephesus, not far from the city of Miletus where Greek philosophy first began.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anaximander, (born 610 bce, Miletus [now in Turkey]-died 546 bce), Greek philosopher who was the first to develop a cosmology, or systematic philosophical view of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -The central idea of Heraclitus’ philosophy is the unity of opposites. One of his most notable applications of this idea was to the concept of impermanence; he saw the world as constantly in flux, changing as it remained the same, which he expressed in the saying, “No man ever steps in the same river twice."