9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17813 | Löwenheim-Skolem says any theory with a true interpretation has a model in the natural numbers [White,NP] |
17812 | Finite cardinalities don't need numbers as objects; numerical quantifiers will do [White,NP] |
16050 | The goodness of a picture supervenes on the picture; duplicates must be equally good [Hare] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
2855 | In primary evaluative words like 'ought' prescription is constant but description can vary [Hare, by Hooker,B] |
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] |