13 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16901 | The equivalent algebra model of geometry loses some essential spatial meaning [Burge] |
17435 | Objects do not naturally form countable units [Koslicki] |
17433 | We can still count squares, even if they overlap [Koslicki] |
17439 | There is no deep reason why we count carrots but not asparagus [Koslicki] |
17434 | We struggle to count branches and waves because our concepts lack clear boundaries [Koslicki] |
16902 | Peano arithmetic requires grasping 0 as a primitive number [Burge] |
17436 | We talk of snow as what stays the same, when it is a heap or drift or expanse [Koslicki] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
16892 | Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition? [Burge] |
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] |