Questions tagged [relations]
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On Relations Versus Relational Properties
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the following holds: Relations and relational properties can be distinguished. A relation is borne from one thing to another thing. A relational ...
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What are some philosophical discussions on the nature of relationships?
We are social animals, and while living in a society, we make relationships with other humans.
Relationships like mother, father, son, aunt, etc., are determined by default, i.e., we don't have a ...
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Do relational metaphysics and analytic philosophy conflict via relational vs external properties?
You might first think, relations do indeed involve external properties of the relata. But I want to be careful. Are relational properties, a la relational quantum mechanics say, and external ...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
It is a common line of argumentation against religion that it includes dogmatic claims without evidence and that the resistance to change that is peculiar to religion and stems from its dogmatism ...
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
I would like to start by quoting this answer's summary of the divine hiddenness argument:
This is the crux of the atheistic Argument from Divine
Hiddenness:
(1) Necessarily, if God exists, then God ...
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How to grasp in romantic relationship the difference of "to be identified with" and "do the identifying"?
I've been doing close reading for my bachelor thesis and I struggle with concept regarding love as union.
To set a little bit of context:
I concentrate specifically on creation and the problematic ...
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Are there any pairs of things that are fully irrelevant to each other?
Alternatively, does relevance come in degrees or amounts, and if so, can that measure ever be reduced to zero between two topics?
I had hoped to explain this question in terms of relevance logic, but ...
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States-of-affairs as zero-place analogues of properties and relations?
I've been going slow through the SEP article on intrinsic properties, and came across this intriguing gem:
(The locution ‘state of affairs’ is used differently by different philosophers. Here it is ...
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In the liar/similar sentences, are the characteristic predicates being used more generally or more particularly, or neither?
Between (1) and (2), it seems like "is true" is more particular in the latter than the former:
The truth predicate ("is true") is a predicate attaching to (interpreted) sentences ...
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The aggregate effects of human-human interaction
It can be seen that individual human-human interactions vary widely, from positive to neutral to negative.
However, I have no empirical evidence on the effects of human-human interactions as an ...
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Confucianism and other cultures/peoples
Are there considerations and reflections about other cultures and peoples (than Confucianism and confucianist societies) in Confucianism?
For instance concerning the kind of relationship a ...
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Does a formula denote it's truth value once the variable is assigned?
In a lot of systems like boolean algebra '=' is treated as a function that takes two inputs and yields a truth value.
In first-order logic we often use an expression like 1. p(x)=(x+1=2) and to treat '...
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Is there any aggregation contains all the relationships between things?
We know there have many relationships between things, such as causal relationship, parallel relationship and so on.
But is there any books or post which describe all the relationship between things?
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What is an ordered pair of identical objects?
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I am reading this book. In the chapter "The Ontology of Metaphysical Realism" the author says:
Many relations are such that pairs of objects enter into them only when taken
in a ...
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If there are abstract cases of space and time, then why wouldn't all the other abstract objects be located inside of them?
As per the SEP article on abstract objects:
Some of the archetypes of abstractness are non-spatiotemporal in a straightforward sense. It makes no sense to ask where the cosine function was last ...
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