9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |