11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16186 | The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen] |
16187 | The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen] |
16190 | BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen] |
23900 | Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
16188 | Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen] |
23899 | The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil] |
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] |