8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
12733 | Because of the definitions of cause, effect and power, cause and effect have the same power [Leibniz] |
12734 | Every necessary proposition is demonstrable to someone who understands [Leibniz] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19708 | Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid] |
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] |