14 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
14782 | Philosophy is an experimental science, resting on common experience [Peirce] |
14787 | Self-contradiction doesn't reveal impossibility; it is inductive impossibility which reveals self-contradiction [Peirce] |
14783 | Logic, unlike mathematics, is not hypothetical; it asserts categorical ends from hypothetical means [Peirce] |
14788 | Mathematics is close to logic, but is even more abstract [Peirce] |
14786 | Some logical possibility concerns single propositions, but there is also compatibility between propositions [Peirce] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
14789 | Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce] |
14785 | The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas [Peirce] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
14784 | Ethics is the science of aims [Peirce] |
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] |