From: Colin.Wight-AT-aber.ac.uk (Colin Wight) Subject: Re: BHA: Identity and change Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:47:42 +0100 >Hi Louis, You argue: First, understand a relational property to be a property a >thing has by virtue of being in relation to something else. If R is a >relation and Rab, then a has the relational property Rxb, and b has the >relational property Rax. Yes, but this is an _internal_ relation. External ones are not of this form. And the relationship between a rock in Cambridge and the environment in Arizona seems to me to be pretty much an external one. Convince me that a move of the rock in Cambridge changes the environment in Arizona? Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Tel: (01970) 621769 ---------------------------------------------------------------- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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