8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
18491 | The idea of 'making' can be mere conceptual explanation (like 'because') [Künne] |
6550 | Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars] |
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] |