9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9218 | Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths [Sider] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
8872 | It is widely supposed that externalism cannot be reconciled with first-person authority [Davidson] |
8874 | It is hard to interpret a speaker's actions if we take a broad view of the content [Davidson] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
8873 | The cause of a usage determines meaning, but why is the microstructure of water relevant? [Davidson] |
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] |