17 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
18415 | The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever] |
16392 | A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
18416 | Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon] |
16390 | Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati] |
18418 | A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
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] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |