9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22593 | Our sensation of light may not be the same as what produces the sensation [Descartes] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
16569 | The Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry of the philosophers need themselves to be explained [Descartes] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
20964 | Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion' [Descartes, by Papineau] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |