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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'An American Indian model of the Universe' and 'Reflections on my Critics'

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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth
12129 'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]
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 / 1. Scientific Theory
6809 Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm
3917 Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability
12128 In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
468 Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
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]