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All the ideas for 'works', 'Humean metaphysics vs metaphysics of Powers' and 'An American Indian model of the Universe'

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5 ideas

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

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]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

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Causation is the power of one property to produce another, and this gives time its direction [Esfeld]