21 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
20923 | We take part in objective truth, rather than observe it from a distance [Zimmermann,J] |
20926 | Hermeneutic knowledge is not objective, but embraces interpretations [Zimmermann,J] |
8439 | Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett] |
8440 | Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20924 | In phenomenology, all perception is 'seeing as' [Zimmermann,J] |
20927 | The hermeneutic circle is between the reader's self-understanding, and the world of the text [Zimmermann,J] |
20933 | Natural law theorists fear that without morality, law could be based on efficiency [Zimmermann,J] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
8441 | Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett] |
8436 | Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett] |
8435 | Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
8437 | The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett] |
8438 | A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
8592 | Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Bennett, by Shoemaker] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20929 | Traditionally, God dictated the Torah to Moses, unlike the later biblical writings [Zimmermann,J] |