15 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
14347 | A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry] |
14348 | An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry] |
14350 | If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
14351 | Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry] |
21733 | The right-wing conception of freedom is based on the idea of self-ownership [Cohen,GA] |
21739 | Plenty of people have self-ownership, but still lack autonomy [Cohen,GA] |
21734 | It is plausible that no one has an initial right to own land and natural resources [Cohen,GA] |
21736 | It is doubtful whether any private property was originally acquired legitimately [Cohen,GA] |
21735 | Every thing which is now private started out as unowned [Cohen,GA] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
14346 | Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry] |
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] |