8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
6624 | Dennett denies the existence of qualia [Dennett, by Lowe] |
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] |