File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1998/bhaskar.9805, message 38


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,




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University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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