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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Thales and Gottlob Schulze

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]
	Full Idea: Thales was the first thinker in the west to believe that the arché (the basis of things) was intelligible.
	From: comment on Thales (fragments/reports [c.585 BCE]) by David Roochnik - The Tragedy of Reason p.138