10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
21867 | Conatus is brain circuits seeking survival and well-being [Damasio] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
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] |