8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
20660 | At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
7091 | The argument from analogy is not a strong inference, since the other being might be an actor or a robot [Grayling] |
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] |
20659 | Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |