Relation - Logic and Philosophy

Logic and Philosophy

  • Relation (philosophy), links between properties of an object
  • Relation (logic), term in set theory and logic, for a property that assigns truth values to k-tuples of individuals
  • Relation of Ideas, in the Human sense, is the type of knowledge that can be characterized as arising out of pure conceptual thought and logical operations (in contrast to a Matter of Fact)
  • Relational theory, framework to understand reality or a physical system in such a way that the positions and other properties of objects are only meaningful relative to other objects

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