8 ideas
9764 | Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine] |
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9763 | For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine] |
15034 | Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them? [Porphyry] |
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] |