Ideas from 'Neutral Relations' by Kit Fine [2000], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Philosophical Review' (ed/tr -) [- ,]].
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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
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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order
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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath'
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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road
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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased?
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