Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Kit Fine and Anil Gupta
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]
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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]
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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]
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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]
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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]
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