11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7085 | The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
21546 | We can't sharply distinguish variables, domains and values, if symbols frighten us [Russell] |
23463 | Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein] |
21531 | Common sense agrees with Meinong (rather than Russell) that 'Pegasus is a flying horse' is true [Lackey on Russell] |
21545 | I prefer to deny round squares, and deal with the difficulties by the theory of denoting [Russell] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
23490 | A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein] |
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] |