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** [[Socrates (Creator)|Socrates]] was the first [[The Philosopher|philosopher]] in our modern sense of the term. Greece had "philosophers" before him, but they were essentially studying science, or debate. Socrates was the first to turn philosophy into a study of morality, logic, and the like. Then [[Plato]] wrote Socrates' thought down, with his own additions, and the rest is history.
** Gottlob Frege is the Ur Example of an analytic philosopher, with [[Bertrand Russell]] as the [[Trope Maker]].
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* In taxonomy, the Ur Example of a newly-classified species is called a "type specimen". It retains this special status permanently, even if other specimens are subsequently collected which are of better quality; many long-extinct species have fragmentary pieces for their type specimens, even though complete fossils have since been found.
* The city of Ur comes quite close to being the Ur Example of civilization itself. This is a coincidence, however; the prefix "Ur-" comes from German, and has nothing to do with the Sumerian city.
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