Symmetric relations, symmetric theories, and Pythagrapheanism.
It is a metaphysical orthodoxy that interesting non‐symmetric relations cannot be reduced to symmetric ones. This orthodoxy is wrong. I show this by exploring the expressive power of symmetric theories, i.e. theories which use only symmetric predicates. Such theories are powerful enough to raise the...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 107; no. 3; pp. 583 - 613 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2023
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