8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9226 | If mathematical theories conflict, it may just be that they have different subject matter [Field,H] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21995 | Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round? [Singer on Marx] |
20577 | Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them [Marx] |
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] |