8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
17897 | Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |
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] |