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The chapter traces the historical development of the ontological priority debate through the works of Thales of Miletus, Anaximander of Miletus, Anaximenes of Miletus, and Heraclitus of Ephesus. In doing so, I argue that the ontological priority debate has been framed in terms of either substances of processes. This claim serves as the basis of subsequent chapters to show that the substance framework and its respective methods have been adopted without having given adequate consideration to the process framework.
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Winters, A.M. (2017). Introduction: Ontological Frameworks. In: Natural Processes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67570-1_1
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