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All the ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'An American Indian model of the Universe' and 'Classes and Attributes'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

9783	While no two classes coincide in membership, there are distinct but coextensive attributes [Cartwright,R]

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]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

19399

Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [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]