Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Agathon, Theodor W. Adorno and Benjamin Lee Whorf

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless [Adorno]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

74	Even God could not undo what has been done [Agathon]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3914	Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]

3916	Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

3917	Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 1. Ideology

15664

Ideology is 'socially necessary illusion' or 'socially necessary false-consciousness' [Adorno, by Finlayson]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

3915	The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf]