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Ideas for Hermarchus, Max J. Cresswell and Alan Turing

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation

14974	A relation is 'Euclidean' if aRb and aRc imply bRc [Cresswell]
	Full Idea: A relation is 'Euclidean' if aRb and aRc imply bRc.
	From: Max J. Cresswell (Modal Logic [2001], 7.1.2)
	A reaction: If a thing has a relation to two separate things, then those two things will also have that relation between them. If I am in the same family as Jim and as Jill, then Jim and Jill are in the same family.