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All the ideas for 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity', 'Neutral Relations' and 'Letters to Jacques Lenfant'

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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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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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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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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The most primitive thing in substances is force, which leads to their actions and dispositions [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

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'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]