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A. J. Baker

20th century

Ahmad Fardid

20th century

Alain Badiou

20th century

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir

20th century

Bessarion

20th century

Brian O'Connor

20th century

David Duquette

20th century

David Lewis

20th century

Dirk Baltzly

20th century

Eduardo Carrasco

20th century

Ezra Heymann

20th century

George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson

20th century

Gianni Vattimo

20th century

Gilles Deleuze

20th century

Graham Parkes

20th century

Heikki Ikäheimo

20th century

Hossein Ziai

20th century

Ivor Leclerc

20th century

Jarava Lal Mehta

20th century

Jean Baudrillard

20th century

Jean Lacoste

20th century

Jean-Paul Sartre

20th century

Jennifer Bates

20th century

John M. Dillon

20th century

Jonathan Bennett

20th century

Jose Ferrater Mora

20th century

Karin de Boer

20th century

Kazim Azimov

20th century

Keith Campbell

20th century

Kenneth R. Westphal

20th century

Kim Dinh

20th century

Lorenz Bruno Puntel

20th century

Lu De Vos

20th century

Michel Weber

20th century

Mikhail Maslin

20th century

Mohamed Hamouda Bensai

20th century

Mohammed Chaouki Zine

20th century

Moncef Chelli

20th century

Munzifa Gafarova

20th century

Nagib El-Hassadi

20th century

Omid Tofighian

20th century

P.F. Strawson

20th century

Park Ynhui

20th century

Parvis Emad

20th century

Pedro Cerezo Galán

20th century

Peter Menzies

20th century

Peter van Inwagen

20th century

Randall Dipert

20th century

Reiner Schürmann

20th century

Rhina Toruño Haensly

20th century

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1. Metaphysics (Wikipedia)
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  • Metaphysics, lead section, Greek emergence sentence
    In ancient Greece, metaphysics emerged in the 6th century BCE with the pre-Socratic philosophers, who gave rational explanations of the cosmos as a whole.
  • Metaphysics, lead section, Indian origin sentence
    In ancient India, starting in the 7th century BCE, the Upanishads were written as religious and philosophical texts that examine how ultimate reality constitutes the ground of all being.
  • Metaphysics, lead section, Chinese origin sentence
    At about the same time in ancient China, the school of Taoism was formed and explored the natural order of the universe.
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