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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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Are all sufficient conditions necessary?
If X is the necessary condition of A, then it doesn't follow that X is sufficient. However, if X were a sufficient condition, would it also follow that X is a necessary condition? Put otherwise, is a ...
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Is discrimination in society bi-directional?
Today I had a discussion with someone about the what is discrimination in society.
The person I was talking with thought that discrimination is only one-way, what he meant is that a party puts down ...
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Are virtues non-relational?
I was reading this, by Shirong Luo, on the ethics of care
care is notoriously difficult to define. As Ruddick points out, at
least three distinct but overlapping meanings of care have emerged in
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What philosopher regarded the end and purpose of human life to be in relationships with other individuals?
I remember in my undergrad being taught about some philosopher who regarded the whole end and purpose of human existence to be primarily that of relationship with other people. I dont remember if he ...
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What is "ownership"?
So I was partaking in a course about Indigenous Peoples of America (and Canada, in particular). One of the questions that arose was "What is ownership?". (It was actually part of an assignment, but it ...
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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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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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Social Response to Legal/Moral Duty Violation
When a person, especially a public figure, has committed a serious legal or moral violation, there is a tendency for friends/clients/companies/etc. to dissociate from that individual, even if the ...
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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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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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Grounding without fundamental relations
Philosophers from Leibniz to John Heil have proposed the reduction/elimination of relations to non-relational features of their relata; essentially, they seek to formulate an ontology which does not ...
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Relations between "natural" and "artificial"
When we say "aritificial", we typically mean "created by intelligent being". When we say "natural", we typically mean "created by nature, not by intelligent being".
But then is the human created ...
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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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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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Should we forgive?
Religion and to some degree philosophy, may promote forgiveness. But how do you deal with: when people see that you forgive, that may give them a lesson that it is "ok" to do that to you.
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Are there natural language examples of n-ary relations greater than 3?
Binary relations are obvious, and I see the need to have 3-ary relations such as "being in between things". Are there natural language examples of relations greater 3?
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Can one person value two other persons equally?
If one thinks deeply enough about the subjective value they place on their connection to other individuals, would they discover clearly distinct rankings of value?
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What resolves Zeno's argument for the non-existence of place?
Aristotle discusses six dialectical arguments for the non-existence of place in Physics bk. Δ On Place, ch. 1 (209a); Zeno's argument is #5:
if everything that exists has a place, place too will ...
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What is the relation between narratives and knowledge?
It feels like narratives and knowledge are two related concepts that would appear in some sort of diagram, but I have never seen such a diagram and I'm not sure exactly what the connection between the ...
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Correct wording for analysis? What is the nature of this relation?
I'm trying to analyse the statement "The computer has the capacity to perform long division", but I can't decide whether to use the connector because or therefore. Which one is more fitting ...
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Is epistemological potential relational?
There was a thought experiment that came to me.
Suppose there would only be a cube, and you as an observer. These are the restrictions.
You do not have any knowledge of yourself. i.e. questions ...
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Does This Answer The Two Hard Problems – Why Is There Anything? and How Do We Know It?
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I imagine that most philosophers, professional or amateur, must have some kind of personal philosophical view of their preferred ontology/metaphysic, even if it is incomplete. This is mine as ...
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Human relations for the future
If the future had lesser jobs for humans at all would (seems to head that way now like AI,partial self reliance vacuum cleaner, smart car) the world be undoing what it just done?What do I mean?For a ...
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What if we could only "surmount" propositions with lower order properties as their object
This link nicely explains the difference between lower order and higher order properties
First-order properties and relations are those that can only be instantiated by individuals. For example, ...
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Who first studied asymmetric relations qua relation?
Who first asymmetric relations qua relation, viz., the fact that
A relates to B by some relation
does not always/necessarily imply that
B relates to A by the same relation.
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Use-mention distinction
Is it 1+1 or “1+1” that is a formula of addition?
To my intuition, it is the former, and the latter seems to be a name of the formula. The reason why I ask this question is that provided my intuition ...
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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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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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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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The philosophy of friendship
I am new to philosophy.
Are there any good writings on what friendship means?
I came across something on
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/friendship/. How good is this website? Is it good for ...
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Beginning of time problems?
Dear philosophy stackexchange,
I'm curious as to whether there have been arguments by philosophers for there being a finite past/future or whether it has always been past/future temporally infinite? ...
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Relational spacetime and simultaneity?
I once asked a similar question but didn't really get the answer or discussion that I was looking for and decided to start clean. Recall that in Galilean (classical) spacetimes its assumed that space-...
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Compositional relations vs definitional relations, always distinct kinds of relations?
Are compositional (mereological) relations always distinct from definitional relations, or can compositional relations be considered definitional relation in some cases? Does this depend on whether we ...
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What if the words ‘son’ and ‘daughter’ in Germannic languages are cognates of (and Maybe originate from) forms for sun and morning? [closed]
To name the gender of your offspring, why relate to sky terminology?
Son/Zoon/Sohn vs Sun/Zon/Sonne
Dochter/Tochter/Daughter vs
Ochtend and Dageraad/Tag/Day
Compare this with:
Mother earth: matter
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What is love actually? [closed]
Okayyy.. this can be a bit long but if you can give satisfactory ANSWER to it... it might be very helpful to me... so the situation about me is....
How do you come to know if you are in love?
You ...
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How is it possible that so many people get together, get married, have kids and *then* divorce and break up? [closed]
I have always been fundamentally baffled about this fact, as a male currently in his mid-30s who never managed to attract any female.
If this had happened, and we had got so far as to get married, ...
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