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This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2016 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Mind Association occasional series
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=699cbb5b435a4cb6a075dec4eed2c708 |
| Summary: |
This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their subjects jointly instantiating polyadic properties, or can we explain their truths solely in terms of monadic, non-relational properties of the relata? According to a tradition dating back to Plato and Aristotle, and continued by medieval philosophers, polyadic properties are metaphysically dubious. In non-symmetric relations such as the amatory relation, a property would have to inhere in two things at once-lover and beloved-but characterise each differently, and this puzzled the ancients. More recent work on non-symmetric relations highlights difficulties with their directionality. Such problems offer clear motivation for attempting to reduce relations to monadic properties.0. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191054747 9780198735878 |
| Index Number: | B836 |
| CLC: | B081.1 |