| 1001BCE | Db (lexicon) |
| 01 | p. | 11300 | Agathon: good |
| 02 | p. | 11301 | Aisthesis: perception, sensation, consciousness |
| 03 | p. | 11302 | Aitia / aition: cause, explanation |
| 04 | p. | 11303 | Akrasia: lack of control, weakness of will |
| 05 | p. | 11304 | Aletheia: truth |
| 06 | p. | 11305 | Anamnesis: recollection, remembrance |
| 07 | p. | 11306 | Ananke: necessity |
| 08 | p. | 11307 | Antikeimenon: object |
| 09 | p. | 11375 | Apatheia: unemotional |
| 10 | p. | 11308 | Apeiron: the unlimited, indefinite |
| 11 | p. | 11376 | Aphairesis: taking away, abstraction |
| 12 | p. | 11309 | Apodeixis: demonstration |
| 13 | p. | 11310 | Aporia: puzzle, question, anomaly |
| 14 | p. | 11311 | Arche: first principle, the basic |
| 15 | p. | 11312 | Arete: virtue, excellence |
| 16 | p. | 11313 | Chronismos: separation |
| 17 | p. | 11314 | Diairesis: division |
| 18 | p. | 11315 | Dialectic: dialectic, discussion |
| 21 | p. | 11316 | Dianoia: intellection [cf. Noesis] |
| 22 | p. | 11317 | Diaphora: difference |
| 23 | p. | 11318 | Dikaiosune: moral goodness, justice |
| 24 | p. | 11319 | Doxa: opinion, belief |
| 25 | p. | 11320 | Dunamis: faculty, potentiality, capacity |
| 26 | p. | 11321 | Eidos: form, idea |
| 27 | p. | 11322 | Elenchos: elenchus, interrogation |
| 28 | p. | 11323 | Empeiron: experience |
| 31 | p. | 11324 | Energeia: employment, actuality, power? |
| 32 | p. | 11325 | Enkrateia: control |
| 33 | p. | 11326 | Entelecheia: entelechy, having an end |
| 34 | p. | 11327 | Epagoge: induction, explanation |
| 35 | p. | 11328 | Episteme: knowledge, understanding |
| 36 | p. | 11329 | Epithumia: appetite |
| 37 | p. | 11330 | Ergon: function |
| 38 | p. | 11331 | Eristic: polemic, disputation |
| 41 | p. | 11332 | Eros: love |
| 42 | p. | 11333 | Eudaimonia: flourishing, happiness, fulfilment |
| 43 | p. | 11334 | Genos: type, genus |
| 44 | p. | 11335 | Hexis: state, habit |
| 45 | p. | 11336 | Horismos: definition |
| 46 | p. | 11337 | Hule: matter |
| 47 | p. | 11338 | Hupokeimenon: subject, underlying thing [cf. Tode ti] |
| 48 | p. | 11339 | Kalos / kalon: beauty, fineness, nobility |
| 51 | p. | 11340 | Kath' hauto: in virtue of itself, essentially |
| 52 | p. | 11341 | Kinesis: movement, process |
| 53 | p. | 11342 | Kosmos: order, universe |
| 54 | p. | 11343 | Logos: reason, account, word |
| 55 | p. | 11344 | Meson: the mean |
| 56 | p. | 11345 | Metechein: partaking, sharing |
| 57 | p. | 11377 | Mimesis: imitation, fine art |
| 58 | p. | 11346 | Morphe: form |
| 59 | p. | 11347 | Noesis: intellection, rational thought [cf. Dianoia] |
| 61 | p. | 11348 | Nomos: convention, law, custom |
| 62 | p. | 11349 | Nous: intuition, intellect, understanding |
| 63 | p. | 11350 | Orexis: desire |
| 64 | p. | 11351 | Ousia: substance, (primary) being, [see 'Prote ousia'] |
| 65 | p. | 11352 | Pathos: emotion, affection, property |
| 66 | p. | 11353 | Phantasia: imagination |
| 67 | p. | 11354 | Philia: friendship |
| 68 | p. | 11355 | Philosophia: philosophy, love of wisdom |
| 71 | p. | 11356 | Phronesis: prudence, practical reason, common sense |
| 72 | p. | 11357 | Physis: nature |
| 73 | p. | 11358 | Praxis: action, activity |
| 74 | p. | 11359 | Prote ousia: primary being |
| 75 | p. | 11360 | Psuche: mind, soul, life |
| 76 | p. | 11361 | Sophia: wisdom |
| 77 | p. | 11362 | Sophrosune: moderation, self-control |
| 78 | p. | 11363 | Stoicheia: elements |
| 81 | p. | 11364 | Sullogismos: deduction, syllogism |
| 82 | p. | 11365 | Techne: skill, practical knowledge |
| 83 | p. | 11366 | Telos: purpose, end |
| 84 | p. | 11367 | Theoria: contemplation |
| 85 | p. | 11368 | Theos: god |
| 86 | p. | 11369 | Ti esti: what-something-is, essence |
| 87 | p. | 11370 | Timoria: vengeance, punishment |
| 88 | p. | 11371 | To ti en einai: essence, what-it-is-to-be |
| 91 | p. | 11372 | To ti estin: essence |
| 92 | p. | 11373 | Tode ti: this-such, subject of predication [cf. hupokeimenon] |
| 2030 | Db (chronology) |
| p. | 11461 | 323 (roughly): Euclid wrote 'Elements', summarising all of geometry |
| 0001 | p. | 11390 | 1000 (roughly): Upanishads written (in Sanskrit); religious and philosophical texts |
| 0250 | p. | 11391 | 750 (roughly): the Book of Genesis written by Hebrew writers |
| 0415 | p. | 11392 | 586: eclipse of the sun on the coast of modern Turkey was predicted by Thales of Miletus |
| 0430 | p. | 11395 | 570: Anaximander flourished in Miletus |
| 0437 | p. | 11396 | 563: the Buddha born in northern India |
| 0460 | p. | 11398 | 540: Lao Tzu wrote 'Tao Te Ching', the basis of Taoism |
| 0471 | p. | 11400 | 529: Pythagoras created his secretive community at Croton in Sicily |
| 0500 | p. | 11403 | 500: Heraclitus flourishes at Ephesus, in modern Turkey |
| 0504 | p. | 11404 | 496: Confucius travels widely, persuading rulers to be more moral |
| 0528 | p. | 11408 | 472: Empedocles persuades his city (Acragas in Sicily) to become a democracy |
| 0550 | p. | 11412 | 450 (roughly): Parmenides and Zeno visit Athens from Italy |
| 0557 | p. | 11414 | 445: Protagoras helps write laws for the new colony of Thurii |
| 0564 | p. | 11417 | 436 (roughly): Anaxagoras is tried for impiety, and expelled from Athens |
| 0573 | p. | 11421 | 427: Gorgias visited Athens as ambassador for Leontini |
| 0601 | p. | 11425 | 399: Socrates executed (with Plato absent through ill health) |
| 0613 | p. | 11432 | 387 (roughly): Plato returned to Athens, and founded the Academy |
| 0613 | p. | 11433 | 387 (roughly): Aristippus the Elder founder a hedonist school at Cyrene |
| 0633 | p. | 11440 | 367: the teenaged Aristotle came to study at the Academy |
| 0640 | p. | 11443 | 360 (roughly): Diogenes of Sinope lives in a barrel in central Athens |
| 0653 | p. | 11445 | 347: death of Plato |
| 0657 | p. | 11454 | 343: Aristotle becomes tutor to 13 year old Alexander (the Great) |
| 0665 | p. | 11456 | 335: Arisotle founded his school at the Lyceum in Athens |
| 0670 | p. | 11459 | 330 (roughly): Chuang Tzu wrote his Taoist book |
| 0678 | p. | 11465 | 322: Aristotle retired to Chalcis, and died there |
| 0693 | p. | 11468 | 307 (roughly): Epicurus founded his school at the Garden in Athens |
| 0699 | p. | 11470 | 301 (roughly): Zeno of Citium founded Stoicism at the Stoa Poikile in Athens |
| 0739 | p. | 11483 | 261: Cleanthes replaced Zeno as head of the Stoa |
| 0771 | p. | 11486 | 229 (roughly): Chrysippus replaced Cleanthes has head of the Stoa |
| 0843 | p. | 11492 | 157 (roughly): Carneades became head of the Academy |
| 0915 | p. | 11509 | 85: most philosophical activity moves to Alexandria |
| 0922 | p. | 11513 | 78: Cicero visited the stoic school on Rhodes |
| 0940 | p. | 11516 | 60 (roughly): Lucretius wrote his Latin poem on epicureanism |
| 1065 | p. | 11528 | 65: Seneca forced to commit suicide by Nero |
| 1080 | p. | 11531 | 80: the discourses of the stoic Epictetus are written down |
| 1170 | p. | 11535 | 170 (roughly): Marcus Aurelius wrote his private stoic meditations |
| 1200 | p. | 11537 | -200 (roughly): Sextus Empiricus wrote a series of books on scepticism |
| 1263 | p. | 11541 | 263: Porphyry began to study with Plotinus in Rome |
| 1310 | p. | 11545 | 310: Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire |
| 1387 | p. | 11549 | 387: Ambrose converts Augustine to Christianity |
| 1523 | p. | 11555 | 523: Boethius imprisoned at Pavia, and begins to write |
| 1529 | p. | 11557 | 529: the emperor Justinian closes all the philosophy schools in Athens |
| 1622 | p. | 11558 | 622 (roughly): Mohammed writes the Koran |
| 1642 | p. | 11559 | 642: Arabs close the philosophy schools in Alexandria |
| 1910 | p. | 11560 | 910 (roughly): Al-Farabi wrote Arabic commentaries on Aristotle |
| 2015 | p. | 11562 | 1015 (roughly): Ibn Sina (Avicenna) writes a book on Aristotle |
| 2090 | p. | 11564 | 1090: Anselm publishes his proof of the existence of God |
| 2115 | p. | 11566 | 1115: Abelard is the chief logic teacher in Paris |
| 2166 | p. | 11573 | 1166: Ibn Rushd (Averroes) wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle |
| 2266 | p. | 11581 | 1266: Aquinas began writing 'Summa Theologica' |
| 2280 | p. | 11586 | 1280: after his death, the teaching of Aquinas becomes official Dominican doctrine |
| 2328 | p. | 11591 | 1328: William of Ockham decides the Pope is a heretic, and moves to Munich |
| 2347 | p. | 17916 | 1347: the Church persecutes philosophical heresies |
| 2470 | p. | 11593 | 1470: Marsilio Ficino founds a Platonic Academy in Florence |
| 2513 | p. | 11596 | 1513: Machiavelli wrote 'The Prince' |
| 2543 | p. | 11599 | 1543: Copernicus publishes his heliocentric view of the solar system |
| 2580 | p. | 11601 | 1580: Montaigne publishes his essays |
| 2600 | p. | 11607 | 1600: Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome |
| 2619 | p. | 11613 | 1619: Descartes's famous day of meditation inside a stove |
| 2620 | p. | 11614 | 1620: Bacon publishes 'Novum Organum' |
| 2633 | p. | 11619 | 1633: Galileo convicted of heresy by the Inquisition |
| 2641 | p. | 11623 | 1641: Descartes publishes his 'Meditations' |
| 2650 | p. | 11626 | 1650: death of Descartes, in Stockholm |
| 2651 | p. | 11627 | 1651: Hobbes publishes 'Leviathan' |
| 2662 | p. | 11633 | 1662: the Port Royal Logic is published |
| 2665 | p. | 11634 | 1665: Spinoza writes his 'Ethics' |
| 2676 | p. | 11643 | 1676: Leibniz settled as librarian to the Duke of Brunswick |
| 2687 | p. | 11649 | 1687: Newton publishes his 'Principia Mathematica' |
| 2690 | p. | 11652 | 1690: Locke publishes his 'Essay' |
| 2697 | p. | 11654 | 1697: Bayle publishes his 'Dictionary' |
| 2713 | p. | 11659 | 1713: Berkeley publishes his 'Three Dialogues' |
| 2734 | p. | 11666 | 1734: Voltaire publishes his 'Philosophical Letters' |
| 2739 | p. | 11667 | 1739: Hume publishes his 'Treatise' |
| 2762 | p. | 11675 | 1762: Rousseau publishes his 'Social Contract' |
| 2781 | p. | 11682 | 1781: Kant publishes his 'Critique of Pure Reason' |
| 2785 | p. | 11683 | 1785: Reid publishes his essays defending common sense |
| 2789 | p. | 11687 | 1798: the French Revolution |
| 2807 | p. | 11694 | 1807: Hegel publishes his 'Phenomenology of Spirit' |
| 2818 | p. | 11701 | 1818: Schopenhauer publishes his 'World as Will and Idea' |
| 2840 | p. | 11710 | 1840: Kierkegaard is writing extensively in Copenhagen |
| 2843 | p. | 11713 | 1843: Mill publishes his 'System of Logic' |
| 2848 | p. | 11715 | 1848: Marx and Engels publis the Communist Manifesto |
| 2859 | p. | 11717 | 1859: Darwin publishes his 'Origin of the Species' |
| 2861 | p. | 11721 | 1861: Mill publishes 'Utilitarianism' |
| 2867 | p. | 11724 | 1867: Marx begins publishing 'Das Kapital' |
| 2879 | p. | 11733 | 1879: Peirce taught for five years at Johns Hopkins University |
| 2879 | p. | 17907 | 1879: Frege invents predicate logic |
| 2882 | p. | 17909 | 1892: Frege's essay 'Sense and Reference' |
| 2884 | p. | 17908 | 1884: Frege publishes his 'Foundations of Arithmetic' |
| 2885 | p. | 11735 | 1885: Nietzsche completed 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' |
| 2888 | p. | 17911 | 1888: Dedekind publishes axioms for arithmetic |
| 2890 | p. | 11740 | 1890: James published 'Principles of Psychology' |
| 2895 | p. | 11742 | 1895 (roughly): Freud developed theories of the unconscious |
| 2900 | p. | 11745 | 1900: Husserl began developing Phenomenology |
| 2903 | p. | 11746 | 1903: Moore published 'Principia Ethica' |
| 2904 | p. | 11747 | 1904: Dewey became professor at Columbia University |
| 2908 | p. | 17910 | 1908: Zermelo publishes axioms for set theory |
| 2910 | p. | 11752 | 1910: Russell and Whitehead begin publishing 'Principia Mathematica' |
| 2912 | p. | 11756 | 1912: Russell meets Wittgenstein in Cambridge |
| 2921 | p. | 11762 | 1921: Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' published |
| 2927 | p. | 11765 | 1927: Heidegger's 'Being and Time' published |
| 2930 | p. | 11768 | 1930: Frank Ramsey dies at 27 |
| 2931 | p. | 11770 | 1931: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
| 2933 | p. | 11773 | 1933: Tarski's theory of truth |
| 2942 | p. | 11783 | 1942: Camus published 'The Myth of Sisyphus' |
| 2943 | p. | 11784 | 1943: Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness' |
| 2945 | p. | 11787 | 1945: Merleau-Ponty's 'Phenomenology of Perception' |
| 2947 | p. | 17918 | 1947: Carnap published 'Meaning and Necessity' |
| 2950 | p. | 11794 | 1950: Quine's essay 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' |
| 2953 | p. | 17917 | 1953: Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations' |
| 2956 | p. | 17919 | 1956: Place proposed mind-brain identity |
| 2962 | p. | 11804 | 1962: Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' |
| 2967 | p. | 17921 | 1967: Putnam proposed functionalism of the mind |
| 2971 | p. | 11808 | 1971: Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice' |
| 2972 | p. | 11810 | 1972: Kripke publishes 'Naming and Necessity' |
| 2975 | p. | 11813 | 1975: Singer publishes 'Animal Rights' |
| 2975 | p. | 17920 | 1975: Putnam published his Twin Earth example |
| 2986 | p. | 11820 | 1986: David Lewis publishes 'On the Plurality of Worlds' |
| 2031 | Db (ideas) |
| p. | 4465 | Note that "is" can assert existence, or predication, or identity, or classification |
| p. | 7415 | Question-begging assumes the proposition which is being challenged |
| p. | 4686 | Fallacies are errors in reasoning, 'formal' if a clear rule is breached, and 'informal' if more general |
| p. | 7414 | What is true of a set is also true of its members |
| p. | 6696 | The Ad Hominem Fallacy criticises the speaker rather than the argument |
| p. | 4687 | Minimal theories of truth avoid ontological commitment to such things as 'facts' or 'reality' |
| p. | 6516 | Monty Hall Dilemma: do you abandon your preference after Monty eliminates one of the rivals? |
| p. | 3875 | If reality is just what we perceive, we would have no need for a sixth sense |
| p. | 3876 | If my team is losing 3-1, I have synthetic a priori knowledge that they need two goals for a draw |
| p. | 7735 | Maybe a frog's brain events for fear are functionally like ours, but not phenomenally |
| p. | 7734 | Maybe a mollusc's brain events for pain ARE of the same type (broadly) as a human's |
| p. | 3877 | Utilitarianism seems to justify the discreet murder of unhappy people |
| p. | 6126 | Life is Movement, Respiration, Sensation, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction, Growth (MRS NERG) |
| p. | 3874 | How could God know there wasn't an unknown force controlling his 'free' will? |
| p. | 3873 | An omniscient being couldn't know it was omniscient, as that requires information from beyond its scope of knowledge |