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Full Idea
The sentence connective 'and' also has an order-sensitive meaning, when it means something like 'and then'.
Gist of Idea
The connective 'and' can have an order-sensitive meaning, as 'and then'
Source
Keith Hossack (Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number [2020], 10.4)
Book Ref
Hossack, Keith: 'Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number' [Routledge 2021], p.158
A Reaction
This is support the idea that orders are a feature of reality, just as much as possible concatenation. Relational predicates, he says, refer to series rather than to individuals. Nice point.
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