10 ideas
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |
3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |