Full Idea
The 'standard' view of relations, held by philosophers and logicians alike, is that we may meaningfully talk of a relation holding of several objects in a given order (which works for examples like 'loves' and 'between').
Gist of Idea
The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order
Source
Kit Fine (Neutral Relations [2000], Intro)
Book Reference
-: 'Philosophical Review' [-], p.1
A Reaction
The point of Fine's paper is that there are many relations for which this model seems to fail.
Related Idea
Idea 14216 The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]