17 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |
9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |