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Who was the first person to call himself a philosopher

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Answer: Thales

Explanation: The first philosopher is usually said to have been Thales. Raymond Geuss has recently suggested that it was not Thales but Oedipus (and the Sphinx), on the grounds that 'It takes two' for philosophy to exist.

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