10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |