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'Every Thing Must Go', 'Neutral Relations' and 'What is Critique?'
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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 [Fine,K]
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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]
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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]
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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]
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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]
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Relations without relata must be treated as universals, with their own formal properties [Ladyman/Ross]
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A belief in relations must be a belief in things that are related [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
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The normal assumption is that relations depend on properties of the relata [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 3. Structural Relations
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That there are existent structures not made of entities is no stranger than the theory of universals [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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Causal essentialism says properties are nothing but causal relations [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / e. Dispositions as potential
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If science captures the modal structure of things, that explains why its predictions work [Ladyman/Ross]
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