9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
8511 | Stout first explicitly proposed that properties and relations are particulars [Stout,GF, by Campbell,K] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
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] |