11 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] |
21785 | We are only free, with rights, if we claim our freedom, and there are no natural rights [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
22041 | Representatives by region ignores whether they care about the national interest [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
21781 | The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel] |
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] |