10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
8386 | Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
7441 | Experiences are defined by their causal role, and causal roles belong to physical states [Lewis] |
7442 | 'Pain' contingently names the state that occupies the causal role of pain [Lewis] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
8387 | A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane] |
8384 | The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane] |
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] |