8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17831 | Cantor gives informal versions of ZF axioms as ways of getting from one set to another [Cantor, by Lake] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19518 | Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman] |
19519 | Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman] |
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] |