8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21686 | Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine] |
21685 | Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine] |
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] |