11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17622 | We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure [Burge] |
22142 | In future, only logical limits can be placed on divine omnipotence [Anon (Par), by Boulter] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
16716 | It is heresy to require self-evident foundational principles in order to be certain [Anon (Par)] |
1866 | It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years [Anon (Par)] |
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] |
1865 | It is heresy to teach that natural impossibilities cannot even be achieved by God [Anon (Par)] |
1864 | It is heresy to teach that we can know God by his essence in this mortal life [Anon (Par)] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |