9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20443 | The aesthetic attitude is nothing more than paying close attention [Dickie, by Giovannelli] |
20329 | A work of art is an artifact created for the artworld [Dickie] |
8114 | The institutional theory says only a competent expert can decree something to be an art work [Dickie, by Gardner] |
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] |