10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20991 | People prepare our dinner from their own self-interest, not from humanity [Smith,A] |
20680 | Selfish profit-seeking increases collective wealth, so greed is good, and egoism is altruism [Smith,A, by Harari] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |
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] |