8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
10247 | We have no adequate logic at the moment, so mathematicians must create one [Veblen] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
10356 | Relativism can be seen as about the rationality of different cultural traditions [MacIntyre, by Kusch] |
23080 | Liberals debate how conservative or radical to be, but don't question their basics [MacIntyre] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
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] |