On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:34:07 PM UTC+2 Brent wrote: > > That's almost literally Mermin's slogan for the view, which he also > advocates, "Relations without relata." But are relations abstracted away > from relata really any different from numbers abstracted from things > counted? >
Of course we can abstract relations from relata and numbers from things, just as we can abstract the Cheshire cat's grin from the cat. It doesn't mean that the grin can exist without the cat. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/85a4e75d-c205-459a-92f6-2e0f20c4a7a1n%40googlegroups.com.
