10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17751 | Gödel proved the completeness of first order predicate logic in 1930 [Gödel, by Walicki] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5122 | Maybe consequentialism is a critique of ordinary morality, rather than describing it [Harman] |
5123 | Maybe there is no such thing as character, and the virtues and vices said to accompany it [Harman] |
5124 | If a person's two acts of timidity have different explanations, they are not one character trait [Harman] |
5125 | Virtue ethics might involve judgements about the virtues of actions, rather than character [Harman] |
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] |