13 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7719 | European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead] |
10656 | With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi] |
18933 | Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius] |
15389 | In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9866 | Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato] |
5864 | Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
15247 | Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
16962 | Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |