14 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22334 | Analysis must include definitions, search for simples, concept analysis, and Kant's analysis [Glock] |
22764 | Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22332 | German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality [Glock] |
22759 | Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus] |
22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
22763 | We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus] |
22335 | The variety of uses of 'game' may be that it has several meanings, and isn't a single concept [Glock] |
22336 | We might say that the family resemblance is just a consequence of meaning-as-use [Glock] |
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] |