8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
14248 | We could accept the integers as primitive, then use sets to construct the rest [Cohen] |
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
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] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |