It Is Important That This Chapter Not Be Taught as Just

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It is important that this chapter not be taught as just one view after another. I try to stress how every subsequent thinker sees a problem in a previous one and tries to solve it. Karl Popper cited these pre-Socratics as displaying the method (which he favored) of "conjectures and refutations," and that seems a promising hook on which to hang the discussions.