12 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |