Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'An American Indian model of the Universe' and 'Disputed questions about truth'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

22104

Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

22103

Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

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 / 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]