Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'reports', 'Two treatises' and 'Neutral Relations'

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8 ideas

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]

14217

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]

14220

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

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

16597

Quantity is the capacity to be divided [Digby]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

16731

Colours arise from the rarity, density and mixture of matter [Digby]