12 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
10051 | The axiom of infinity is not a truth of logic, and its adoption is an abandonment of logicism [Kneale,W and M] |
10369 | How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated [Kim, by Schaffer,J] |
8974 | Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons] |
8975 | Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements [Kim, by Simons] |
8976 | If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract [Simons on Kim] |
8977 | Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties [Simons on Kim] |
8980 | Kim's theory results in too many events [Simons on Kim] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
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] |