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Full Idea
The 'standard' view of relations, held by philosophers and logicians alike, is that we may meaningfully talk of a relation holding of several objects in a given order (which works for examples like 'loves' and 'between').
Gist of Idea
The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order
Source
Kit Fine (Neutral Relations [2000], Intro)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophical Review' [-], p.1
A Reaction
The point of Fine's paper is that there are many relations for which this model seems to fail.
Related Idea
Idea 14216 The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]
| 14217 | The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K] |
| 14216 | The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K] |
| 14218 | A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K] |
| 14219 | Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K] |
| 14220 | Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K] |