8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9616 | A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor] |
15896 | Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21788 | The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society [Houlgate] |
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] |