9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3644 | Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same [Descartes] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
3621 | Only judgement decides which of our senses are reliable [Descartes] |
7091 | The argument from analogy is not a strong inference, since the other being might be an actor or a robot [Grayling] |
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] |
3637 | Ideas in God's mind only have value if he makes it so [Descartes] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |