11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
10735 | Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
10731 | For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach] |
10733 | The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach] |
10734 | Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach] |
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] |
16712 | Atheism is an atrocious and intolerable crime in any country [Descartes] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |