11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
12177 | Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes [Popper] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
12176 | Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper] |
2596 | Maybe mind and body are parallel, like two good clocks [Leibniz] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
12175 | Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations [Popper] |
12179 | Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised [Popper] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
2595 | If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |