8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
9879 | NF has no models, but just blocks the comprehension axiom, to avoid contradictions [Quine, by Dummett] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
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] |