8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
8090 | Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin] |
11143 | If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence] |
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] |