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refer to this group of philosophers. It was first used by the German philosopher J.A. Eberhard as vorsokratische Philosophie in the late 18th century. In earlier literature they were referred to as physikoi ("physicists", after physis, "nature"), and their activity, as physiologoi (physical or natural philosophers), with this usage arising with Aristotle

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