Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Benjamin Lee Whorf, Anon (Lev) and Ruth Garrett Millikan

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7 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

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]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

23801

Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

19941

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself [Anon (Leviticus)]

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]