8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
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] |
9287 | Bruno said that ancient Egyptian magic was the true religion [Bruno, by Yates] |