Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, David Wiggins and Benjamin Lee Whorf

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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism
Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]
Our sortal concepts fix what we find in experience [Wiggins]
Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf]