17 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
23335 | In late antiquity nearly all philosophers were monotheists [Frede,M] |
23326 | In the third century Stoicism died out, replaced by Platonism, with Aristotelian ethics [Frede,M] |
14212 | A consistent theory just needs one model; isomorphic versions will do too, and large domains provide those [Lewis] |
14213 | Anti-realists see the world as imaginary, or lacking joints, or beyond reference, or beyond truth [Lewis] |
14210 | A gerrymandered mereological sum can be a mess, but still have natural joints [Lewis] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
14215 | Causal theories of reference make errors in reference easy [Lewis] |
14209 | Descriptive theories remain part of the theory of reference (with seven mild modifications) [Lewis] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
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] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |