9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19355 | The soul doesn't understand many of its own actions, if perceptions are confused and desires buried [Leibniz] |
7439 | The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Anscombe, by Armstrong] |
19350 | We should say that body is mechanism and soul is immaterial, asserting their independence [Leibniz] |
19356 | Minds unconsciously count vibration beats in music, and enjoy it when they coincide [Leibniz] |
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] |