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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Of the First Principles of Government' and 'Letters'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

21338

I will even consider changing a meaning to save a law; I question the meaning-fact cleavage [Quine]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21094

There are two kinds of right - to power, and to property [Hume]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

21095

It is an exaggeration to say that property is the foundation of all government [Hume]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]