Re: What Is A Relation?

What Is A Relation?
Reply to David Bourget

Re: http://philpapers.org/post/792
Re: http://philpapers.org/browse/13/thread.pl?tId=222#p792

On further reflection, I think the short answer to this question
is that adicity refers to the number of roles in a relation, not
the number of objects.  The same object can fill several roles.

Misconceptions also arise from focusing too fixedly on the elemental tuples
of a relation instead of recognizing that the relation is a matter of what
a whole set of tuples have in common.  This is true whether we take relations
extensionally or intensionally.

Jon Awbrey

External link: http://philpapers.org/post/1247

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