8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
15432 | Structural universals might serve as possible worlds [Forrest, by Lewis] |
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] |
18202 | The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |