10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
19494 | Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo] |
13230 | Particular essence is often captured by generality [Steiner,M] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19493 | Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo] |
13229 | Maybe an instance of a generalisation is more explanatory than the particular case [Steiner,M] |
13231 | Explanatory proofs rest on 'characterizing properties' of entities or structure [Steiner,M] |
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] |