8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
8920 | Equivalence relations are reflexive, symmetric and transitive, and classify similar objects [Lipschutz] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22381 | Being a good father seems to depend on intentions, rather than actual abilities [Foot] |
22380 | Some words, such as 'knife', have a meaning which involves its function [Foot] |
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] |