Relatedly, it appears to follow that identity itself must be a determinate relation.
Now in (A) Kant contends that cognitions of objects consist in a determinate relation of representations to objects, and as (1) indicates, this relation is constituted or produced by a synthesis that essentially involves the unity of consciousness.
In his De veritate, he argues that the analogy of attribution involves a determinate relation, which cannot hold between God and creatures, and that the analogy of proportionality must be used for the divine names.
All the theories examined so far, from M to GEM and its variants, appear to assume that parthood is a perfectly determinate relation: given any two entities x and y, there is always an objective, determinate fact of the matter as to whether or not x is part of y.
In the former, and earlier, Neurath assumed a determinate logical relation of inconsistency.
A theory of truth which substantiates bivalence, or a determinate reference relation, does most of the work of giving a realistic metaphysics.
Her discussion focuses on a group of metaphysical relations what she calls the 'small-g' grounding relations that include token identity, realization, the classical extensional part-whole relation, the set membership relation, the proper subset relation, and the determinable-determinate relation.
Zimmerman's formulation does not repair a difficulty in Searle's, namely, that the red-colored paradigm fails to satisfy the definition of the determinate-determinable relation.
Like the distinction between genus and species, the distinction between determinables and determinates is a relative one; redness is a determinate with respect to color but a determinable with respect to specific shades of red.
The argument begins with the claim that God must create bodies in some particular place and in determinate relations of distance to other bodies.
