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Drawing on a vast textual record spanning before 3000 BCE to the first century CE, it examines shared ground rules across corpora focused on language study, divinatory signs, and law. The work argues Babylonian reasoning differed from Greek traditions, yet offered a well-documented pre-Greek system shaping intellectual reasoning for centuries.","A PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS E-BOOK  \nPhilosophy before the Greeks  \nThe Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia  \nMarc Van De Mieroop  \nPhilosophy before the Greeks  \nFrontispiece. Typical example of a scholarly list from the first millennium. This manuscript contains, in two columns, the text of the first tablet of a syllabary list called Ea. Each entry consists of these elements: a vertical wedge to indicate a new entry; a syllabic rendering of the sign; the Sumerian word sign; the sign name; and an Akkadian translation. Oftentimes the scribe just recorded ditto () when a piece of information was repeated in successive lines. 21.3 cm high. YBC 2176, Yale Babylonian Collection.  \nPhilosophy before the Greeks  \nThe Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia  \nMarc Van De Mieroop  \nPrinceton Un iversity Press Princeton an d Oxford  \nCopyright © 2016 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540  \nIn the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW  \n[press.princeton.edu](press.princeton.edu)  \nAll Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nVan De Mieroop, Marc.  \nPhilosophy before the Greeks : the pursuit of truth in ancient Babylonia / Marc Van De Mieroop.  \npages cm  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-15718-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)  \n1. Philosophy, Babylonian. 2. Knowledge, Theory of—Iraq—Babylonia. I. Title.  \nB146.V36 2015  \n181′.6—dc23 2015017273  \nBritish Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Charis SIL Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nContents  \nPreface vii  \nPART I  \nAN ESSAY IN BABYLONIAN EPISTEMOLOGY  \nChapter 1: At the Time of Creation 3  \nPART II  \nTHE ORDER OF THINGS (LES MOTS ET LES CHOSES)  \nChapter 2: Word Lists: A Very Short History 35  \nChapter 3: Constructing Reality 59  \nPART III  \nWRITINGS OF THE GODS  \nChapter 4: Omen Lists in Babylonian Culture 87  \nChapter 5: The Structure of Knowledge of the Universe 113  \nPART IV  \nTHE WORD OF THE LAW  \nChapter 6: Of Ancient Codes 143  \nChapter 7: The Philosopher-King 156  \nPART V  \nA BABYLONIAN EPISTEMOLOGY  \nChapter 8: Babylonian Epistemology in History 185 Chapter 9: The Conceptual Autonomy of Babylonian Epistemology 216  \nNotes 225  \nBibliography 257  \nIndex 291  \nPreface  \n“For you will have the wisdom not to think you know that which you do not know.” Socrates spoke these words at the end of Plato’s Theaetetus, the dialogue that is often proclaimed to be the first major treatment of the problem of knowledge in history. Certainly Socrates was not the first human to wonder how we can determine what is true and what isnot—he spent most of the dialogue disproving what earlier Greeks had suggested. Long before the Classical Greeks, however, other people too must have asked the question what true knowledge was. To assume that they merely observed the obvious and accepted it as inexplicable fact is culturally prejudiced. This book will investigate how the ancient Babylonians approached the issue, at least those who were literate. They left behind a monumental textual record that stretches in time from before 3000 bc to the first century ad. It contains no systematic explanations of the Socratic type, but shows the rules of critical analysis in practice in thousands of manuscripts that contain anything from a couple of lines of text to hundreds of them. The documentation is massive and can be hard to appreciate, because we have to recreate the methods of inquiry the writers employed through practice rather than theory. But its analysis shows that strict logical rules governed its procedures. To make this clear, I will look at three corpora of texts, two of them large in size, the third much more restricted. 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