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According to Aristotle, it was the qualitative pluralist Empedocles (484-424 B.C.E.) who first argued that everything was fundamentally reducible to the elements earth, water, air and fire (or sunlight) in different proportions, but, as one classical scholar observes, a popular belief in the four as somehow basic ingredients in nature was much older, possibly a borrowing from Egypt.