8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
19347 | Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22439 | There are only duties if there are rights, so truth is only for those with a right to it [Constant] |
22440 | Unconditional truth-telling makes a society impossible [Constant] |
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] |