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Ideas of Thales, by Text
[Greek, c.625 - 545 BCE, Born and died in Miletus. At the court of King Croesus, at Miletus.]
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p.19
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3013
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Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Diog. Laertius]
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p.19
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1742
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Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Diog. Laertius]
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p.135
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1713
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Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Aristotle]
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p.138
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1597
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Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik]
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A12
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p.12
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1494
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Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Aristotle]
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