8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19376 | A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [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] |