9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17697 | The existence of an arbitrarily large number refutes the idea that numbers come from experience [Hilbert] |
17698 | Logic already contains some arithmetic, so the two must be developed together [Hilbert] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
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] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |