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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind' and 'Neutral Relations'

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7 ideas

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]

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

9807	In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy

7825	The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]