11 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] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
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] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |