8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9283 | Our ancient beliefs can never be overthrown by subtle arguments [Euripides] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19729 | 'Modal epistemology' demands a connection between the belief and facts in possible worlds [Black,T] |
19728 | Gettier and lottery cases seem to involve luck, meaning bad connection of beliefs to facts [Black,T] |
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] |