10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |