8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
12582 | The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan] |
23801 | Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte] |
6040 | There is no universal goal to human life [Aenesidemus, by Photius] |
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] |