7 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7491 | The phases of human thought are theological, then metaphysical, then positivist [Comte, by Watson] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
6356 | Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz] |
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] |