16 ideas
| 1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
| 18439 | Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine] |
| 18442 | You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine] |
| 18441 | No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine] |
| 16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
| 18440 | Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine] |
| 3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
| 442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
| 440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
| 441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
| 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] |
| 439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
| 1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |