8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22519 | Philosophers are revealed by their fears [Billington] |
20183 | So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20182 | The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen] |
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] |