Mythos · Logos
The Milesian revolution was not the discovery of new facts. It was the invention of a new standard for what an explanation must be. Mythos answers 'who did this and why were they angry?' Logos answers 'what principle makes this necessary, and how could we be wrong?'
Seek one cause behind many appearances — the archē.
Bind events by 'because', not by narrative sequence.
Hold that the same rule binds gods, kings, and stones alike.
The web of reason
Drag the nodes. Gold dashed lines are inherited data from older civilizations; teal lines are the Milesian teacher-pupil chain; violet lines are the heirs who carried the method into mathematics, atoms, and logic.
Once error became a refuted hypothesis rather than an impiety, knowledge could improve. That single reframing — mistakes as progress — is the engine under every page that follows.