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Ideas for 'Taking Rights Seriously', 'Substance' and 'Virtues of the Mind'

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / c. Ancestral relation

12056	An ancestral relation is either direct or transitively indirect [Wiggins]
	Full Idea: x bears to y the 'ancestral' of the relation R just if either x bears R to y, or x bears R to some w that bears R to y, or x bears R to some w that bears R to some z that bears R to y, or.....
	From: David Wiggins (Substance [1995], 4.10.1)
	A reaction: A concept invented by Frege (1879).