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All the ideas for 'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'An American Indian model of the Universe' and 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism'

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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]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22693 The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]
22694 We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]
22695 We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]
22692 A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
16764 The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus]
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]