Both hylozism and panpsychism post-dated Thales. The former describes one of Aristotles doctrines and the latter is a 20th C doctrine.

We have far too little evidence to characterise him as either. Thales probably said and wrote a lot more about his philosophy that has come down to us.

Consider Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If we had as few fragments as Thales we would probably characterise them as the same religion. But of course they are theologically different despite the fact they are known as monotheisms. That some people do this, specially when the evidence is scanty, is mainly because people like tidy characterisations.

Both hylozism and panpsychism post-dated Thales. The former describes one of Aristotles doctrines and the latter is a 20th C doctrine.

We have far too little evidence to characterise him as either. Thales probably said and wrote a lot more about his philosophy that has come down to us.

Consider Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If we had as few fragments as Thales we would probably characterise them as the same religion. But of course they are theologically different despite the fact they are known as monotheisms. That some people do this, especially when the evidence is scanty, is mainly because people like tidy characterisations.

Both hylozism and panpsychism post-dated Thales. The former describes one of Aristotles doctrines and the latter is a 20th C doctrine.

We have far too evidence to characterise him as either. Thales probably said and wrote a lot more about his philosophy than has come down to us.

Consider Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If we had as few fragments as Thales we would probanly charactetise them as the same religion. But of course they are theologically different despite the fact they are known as monotheisms. That some people do this, especially when the evidence is scanty, is mainly because people like tidy characterisations.

Both hylozism and panpsychism post-dated Thales. The former describes one of Aristotles doctrines and the latter is a 20th C doctrine.

We have far too little evidence to characterise him as either. Thales probably said and wrote a lot more about his philosophy that has come down to us.

Consider Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If we had as few fragments as Thales we would probably characterise them as the same religion. But of course they are theologically different despite the fact they are known as monotheisms. That some people do this, specially when the evidence is scanty, is mainly because people like tidy characterisations.