13 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
14759 | A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad] |
14963 | Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad] |
11842 | If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
7628 | Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund] |
4375 | Evaluations are not disguised emotions; instead, emotion is a type of evaluation [Achtenberg] |
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] |
8160 | The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett] |
14609 | We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad] |
22933 | We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |