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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'How to Read Foucault' and 'Lectura'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

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Post-structuralism focused on exterior determinants of thought, rather than the thinker [Oksala]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

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'Unity' is a particularly difficult word, because things can have hidden unity [Duns Scotus]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]