Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Letters to Thomasius' and 'An American Indian model of the Universe'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

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That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

13432

The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

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

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]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

12696

Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]

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]

22899

'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]