18 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
1507 | We don't have time for infinite quantity, but we do for infinite divisibility, because time is also divisible [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea] |
5109 | The fast runner must always reach the point from which the slower runner started [Zeno of Elea, by Aristotle] |
1512 | Zeno is wrong that one grain of millet makes a sound; why should one grain achieve what the whole bushel does? [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea] |
1508 | Zeno's arrow paradox depends on the assumption that time is composed of nows [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
454 | If there are many things they must have a finite number, but there must be endless things between them [Zeno of Elea] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
455 | That which moves, moves neither in the place in which it is, nor in that in which it is not [Zeno of Elea] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |
1511 | If everything is in a place, what is the place in? Place doesn't exist [Zeno of Elea, by Simplicius] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |