The Moves

Move 3

Changing the relations

To adjust, when the parts no longer fit together.

The components stay the same, but they are connected differently. Nothing new is added, yet the whole picture turns.

• Aristotle against Plato. The same forms and the same things, but the forms move from a world apart into things themselves, and the individual thing becomes the most real.
• Ghazali against the philosophers. The same causes and effects, but the link between them changes from necessity to God’s habit.
• Kant’s reversal. The same mind and the same objects, but the relation is reversed: knowledge is not the mind conforming to objects, but objects conforming to the mind’s own forms. It was played on epistemology, and it sent ripples through everything after: metaphysics could no longer be known, and ethics had to rest on duty.
• Copernicus. The same Sun and the same Earth, with their places exchanged.

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