pre-Socratic philosophy
... that pre-Socratic philosophy included some of the earliest attempts to explain the cosmos as an ordered system without reference to the gods?
... that <b id="mwBLU"><a href="./Pre-Socratic_philosophy" id="mwBLY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pre-Socratic philosophy">pre-Socratic philosophy</a></b> included some of the earliest attempts to explain the <a href="./Cosmos" id="mwBLc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cosmos">cosmos</a> as an ordered system without reference to the gods?