8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
6627 | Radical pragmatists abandon the notion of truth [Stich, by Lowe] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22352 | Out of more than a hundred planets, Earth is the only one with the idea of free will [Vonnegut] |
4765 | Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity [Stich, by Engel] |
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] |