10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
13432 | The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
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] |
12696 | Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |