What are the four types of elements?

Answer 1

The four elements of ancient philosophy are neither matter nor principle but both at the same time in alchemy as in physics of Aristotle the universe is made up of four elements which are fire water air and earth

Pagans call Earth (North), Air (east), Fire (South), Water (West) and some of us call Spirit (Center) as the fifth element

Answer 2

the four basic elements are

• the start menu
• the desktop
• the toolbar
• and winndows explorer

ok now i dont actually know if the answers are correct if its wrong please change it thanks

The first answer is wrong, and does not hold water.

The four basic elements are:

• Earth
• Air
• Fire
• Water

Everything else is made up of combinations of these four.

Answer 3

The five elements you're probably thinking of are Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Metal.

Answer 2:

In Taoism there are five 'elements'; Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood - although the word 'element' is unfortunate, as they do not have the same significance as the elements in the western tradition. Taoism does not base itself in the causal and generative philosophy beloved of Westerners, but in a transformative philosophy, where things move through the five phases, naturally and inevitably.

The Greeks derived Four Elements; Earth, Air, Fire and Water, from their observations that the primary qualities of matter, as they understood and observed, were whether it was wet or dry, and whether it was cold or hot. all sensory objects have these characteristics in some admixture. If you draw these qualities on the ends of a diagonal cross, and draw a vertical cross over it, the 'elements' that the Greeks felt must have generated these qualities can be placed between them (so that Fire is between hot and dry, etc.) These should not be viewed as the 'fire' that we warm ourselves by, or the 'water' we drink; rather these familiar names were applied to unseen primal driving forces, which generate the world as we observe it.

The 'mistake' was in inferring that hot and cold are opposites, rather than measurements of the presence of heat; similarly with wet and dry. 'Earth', regarded in this light, merely reflects the absence of qualities, and 'Air' the presence of both Fire and Water.

In Occultism, a fifth 'Element' is sometimes added; and called 'Spirit' or some such, and regarded as the synthesis of the other four. If we assimilate the 'gradation' idea into the Elements (as opposed to the opposition of hot/cold - wet/dry), it means that 'Spirit' is indistinguishable from 'Air' - but this is not as silly as it first seems.

In Qabalah, there are only three Elements; they are attributed to the Three Mother Letters - Aleph (Air) Mem (Water) and Shin (Fire). However, Air is not a mixture of the others, but a separate, single and prior Element, generating the other two. It therefore corresponds more closely to Spirit than to the Air of the Greeks.

A ccording to Indian metaphysical tradition the fifth element is AKASH but it is not the English word sky rather it con notates NAD It is matter less and formless

Answer 4

1. Earth
2. Air
3. Fire
4. Water

1. Metals
2. Non-metals
3. Mettaloids
4. Noble Gases