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I would like to propose renaming this list to List of philosophers born in the centuries B.C.E.. See the article B.C.E.. I don't think the dating system should be christocentric. Comments?--Anthony Krupp 12:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? Change away. Before you do that though, you'll have to track what pages already link to this one as "BC" so you can change them to "B.C.E."Non-vandal 13:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Here're the other pages, not manyNon-vandal 13:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC):[reply]

In table sortable by year born?

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In my own fork, I have started something like so and wondered if it would be useful in Wikipedia:

Philosophers BC
Name (dates) Birth Death Location School Known for
A
Aenesidemus, (1st century BC)[d] 100 BC 1 BC
Alcibiades, (c. 450-404 BC) 450 BC 404 BC
Alcmaeon of Croton, (5th century BC)[b][c][d][e] 500 BC 401 BC
Anacharsis, (6th century BC) 600 BC 501 BC
Anaxagoras, (died 462 BC)[a][b][c][d][e]* 482 BC 462 BC
Anaxarchus, (fl. 340 BC)[d] 360 BC 320 BC
Anaxilaus, (1st century BC) 100 BC 1 BC
Anaximander, (c. 610-c. 546 BC)[a][b][c][d] 610 BC 546 BC
Anaximenes of Miletus, (585-525 BC)[a][b][c][d] 585 BC 525 BC
Andronicus of Rhodes, (c. 70 BC)[a] 90 BC 50 BC
Angiras, (c. 11th century BC) 1100 BC 1001 BC
Anniceris, (fl. 300 BC)[a] 320 BC 290 BC
Antiochus of Ascalon, (c. 130-68 BC)[a][b][c][d][e] 130 BC 68 BC

... and so on

There is no corresponding timeline. The table starts off as an alphabetical index, but I find the ordering my dates is more useful for my analysis. The other column headers could be changed...

This suggestion applies to similar lists, where list or index may no longer be an ideal term. Dpleibovitz (talk) 20:37, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]