Re: BHA: Identity and change

[Colin.Wight@xxxxxxxxxx (Colin Wight)]

>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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Dr. Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Tel: (01970) 621769

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