9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
8714 | Fictionalists say 2+2=4 is true in the way that 'Oliver Twist lived in London' is true [Field,H] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
12893 | Contextualism says sceptical arguments are true, relative to their strict context [Cohen,S] |
12896 | Knowledge is context-sensitive, because justification is [Cohen,S] |
12894 | There aren't invariant high standards for knowledge, because even those can be raised [Cohen,S] |
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] |