13 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
18914 | Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen] |
9843 | You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson] |
14602 | Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
14004 | We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne] |
8278 | The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
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] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |