9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
10710 | We accept substance, to avoid infinite backwards chains of meaning [Wittgenstein, by Potter] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
7777 | We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson] |
7776 | Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson] |
7775 | Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson] |
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] |