Re: The materialist road...Tony Smith?

[Justin Schwartz <jschwart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Chris M. Sciabarra wrote:

> Justin asks me about the meaning of internal relations....
> Blanshard writes:
>
> "A given term is internally related to another if in the absence of the
> relation it could not be what it is.  A term is externally related to
> another if the relation could equally be present or absent while the term
> was precisely the same."
>

Given this definition a great many analytical philosophers accept
something like this view. In fact, everyone will accept that I cannot be a
parent without children, a spouse without someone I'm married to, a worker
without having an employer, etc. If that's all there is to it there's no
problem. So why does it seem to hard in Hegel?

--Justin




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