describe at least two contrasts between Western and Aztec modes of producing, storing, and transmitting knowledge (remember the idea of alethurgic form).

Using the readings by Elizabeth Boone (Stories in Red and Black), Philip Mack (Should a Concept of Truth be Attributed to the Nahuatl Thought?), and Enrique Dussel (A Nahuatl Interpretation of the Conquest) give an account of the knowledge system the Aztec possessed. To do this, you must address the following:
a) define and the explain the key terms: teotl, Ometeotl, tlalticpac, tlamatini and neltiliztli.
b) describe at least two contrasts between Western and Aztec modes of producing, storing, and transmitting knowledge (remember the idea of alethurgic form).
c) describe what the object and purpose of Aztec knowledge was and how we could understand it as being perfectly rational.

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