8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16660 | Are things distinct if they are both separate, or if only one of them can be separate? [Duns Scotus, by Pasnau] |
16626 | Substance is only grasped under the general heading of 'being' [Duns Scotus] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
15308 | Science is the reduction of diverse forces and powers to a smaller number that explain them [Kant] |
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] |