8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
14799 | Metaphysics rests on observations, but ones so common we hardly notice them [Peirce] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
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] |