12 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
6402 | In 1927, Russell analysed force and matter in terms of events [Russell, by Grayling] |
14732 | A perceived physical object is events grouped around a centre [Russell] |
14733 | An object produces the same percepts with or without a substance, so that is irrelevant to science [Russell] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
6418 | Russell rejected phenomenalism because it couldn't account for causal relations [Russell, by Grayling] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |
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] |
21706 | At first matter is basic and known by sense-data; later Russell says matter is constructed [Russell, by Linsky,B] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |