TheKonvencija conventiono ofimenovanju terming thoseonih [[philosophersfilozof]]a whokoji weresu activebili prioraktivni to the death ofpre [[SocratesSokrat]]ove assmrti thekao ''pre-Socraticspresokratovci'' gainedse currencyustalila withnakon the 1903 publication ofizdavanja [[Hermann Alexander Diels|HermannHerman Diels'Dilsove]] pulikacije -{''Fragmente der Vorsokratiker'',}- although1903. godine, theiako termtaj didpojam notnije originatenastao withu himnjoj.<ref>Greg Whitlock, preface to ''The Pre-Platonic Philosophers'', by Friedrich Nietzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), xiv–xvi.</ref><!--ATaj betterizraz referencese forsmatra thiskorisnim, factjer shouldje beono found;što thisje ispostalo justpoznato onepod Inazivom had„atenska handy. --> The term is considered useful because what came to be known as the "Athenian school"škola” (composedsastavljena ofod SocratesSokrata, Plato,Platona andi [[AristotleAristotel]]a) signalednagovestilo theuspon risenovog ofpristupa afilozofiji. new approach to philosophy;Teza [[FriedrichФридрих Ниче|Fridriha NietzscheNičea]]'sthesisda thatje thisovaj shiftpomak beganzapočeo withsa PlatoPlatonom, rathera thanne withsa SocratesSokratom (hencei hisotuda nomenclaturenjegova ofnomenklatura "pre-Platonic„predplatonske philosophy"filozofije”) hasnije notsprečila preventedprevladavanje the predominance of the "pre-Socratic"„predsokratovske” distinctiondistinkcije.<ref name="Whitlock">Greg Whitlock, preface to ''The Pre-Platonic Philosophers'', by Friedrich Nietzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), xiii–xix.</ref>
ThePredsokratisti pre-Socraticssu werese primarilyprvenstveno concerned withbavili [[cosmology|kosmologijom]], [[ontology|ontologijom]],andi [[mathematics|matematikom]]. TheyOni su werese distinguishedrazlikovali fromod "non-philosophers"„nefilozofa” insofarpo astome theyšto rejectedsu mythologicalodbacivali explanationsmitološka inobjašnjenja favoru ofkorist reasonedargumentovanog discoursediskursa.<ref>John Burnet, ''Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato'', 3rd ed. (London: A & C Black Ltd., 1920), 3–16. [https://archive.org/stream/p1greekphilosoph00burnuoft#page/n9/mode/2up Scanned version from Internet Archive]</ref>
