| 21345 | Aristotle said relations are not substances, so (if they exist) they must be accidents [Aristotle, by Heil] |
| 16656 | The separation from here to there is not the same as the separation from there to here [Aristotle] |
| 16658 | The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent] |
| 16659 | Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi] |
| 18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
| 18529 | Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept [William of Ockham] |
| 21346 | The ratio between two lines can't be a feature of one, and cannot be in both [Leibniz] |
| 19383 | A man's distant wife dying is a real change in him [Leibniz] |
| 10419 | If relations can be reduced to, or supervene on, monadic properties of relata, they are not real [Leibniz, by Swoyer] |
| 13078 | Relations aren't in any monad, so they are distributed, so they are not real [Leibniz] |
| 13498 | Peirce and others began the mapping out of relations [Peirce, by Hart,WD] |
| 21576 | With asymmetrical relations (before/after) the reduction to properties is impossible [Russell] |
| 21534 | The only thing we can say about relations is that they relate [Russell] |
| 21540 | Relational propositions seem to be 'about' their terms, rather than about the relation [Russell] |
| 21341 | Philosophers of logic and maths insisted that a vocabulary of relations was essential [Russell, by Heil] |
| 5371 | Because we depend on correspondence, we know relations better than we know the items that relate [Russell] |
| 5407 | That Edinburgh is north of London is a non-mental fact, so relations are independent universals [Russell] |
| 21562 | There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell] |
| 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] |
| 21339 | We want the ontology of relations, not just a formal way of specifying them [Heil] |
| 21349 | Two people are indirectly related by height; the direct relation is internal, between properties [Heil] |
| 21340 | Maybe all the other features of the world can be reduced to relations [Heil] |
| 18508 | Most philosophers now (absurdly) believe that relations fully exist [Heil] |
| 13076 | Scholastics treat relations as two separate predicates of the relata [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
| 13683 | A relation is a feature of multiple objects taken together [Sider] |
| 21354 | It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride] |
| 14009 | It is a necessary condition for the existence of relations that both of the relata exist [Bourne] |
| 14010 | All relations between spatio-temporal objects are either spatio-temporal, or causal [Bourne] |
| 14926 | Relations without relata must be treated as universals, with their own formal properties [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14929 | A belief in relations must be a belief in things that are related [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 22606 | Neo-Humeans say there are no substantial connections between anything [Ingthorsson] |