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iaajah-8260	Hillary Oguejiofor Eze, Ph.D.; Celestine Edozie Anyaorah, Ph.D.	REVISITING EMPEDOCLES’ PHILOSOPHICAL POSTULATIONS TO SCIENCE	2025	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3847	220	54	Empedocles of the ancient Greek city of Acragas (modern-day Agrigento) in Sicily, a pre- Socratic philosopher and well-known ancient Greek cosmologist or materialist (C.492 – 432BC), rationalized and came up with four “roots” or elements: earth, water, air, and fire, as the basic constituents of the material universe. The paper argues that Empedocles’ four “root” or elements are foundational to the development of science, especially Chemistry and Physics.	cache/iaajah-8260.pdf	txt/iaajah-8260.txt