Greek philosophers such as Gorgias and Plato debated the relation between words, concepts and reality.
(For the central jurisprudential debate over the relation between legal and moral rights, see legal positivism, natural law theories, and the nature of law).
Especially noteworthy is the debate concerning the relation between the meaning of a sentence type and the speaker's meaning in using a token (a relation that figures prominently in Grice 1969).
Although Royce made "loyalty to loyalty" into a universalistic principle, there has been much debate concerning the relation between particularistic obligations, such as those associated with loyalty and gratitude, and universalistic obligations owed to all by virtue of their humanity.
For the purposes of this article, it will suffice to think of the debate regarding the relation of the soul to its powers as being motivated at least in part by the need to provide a coherent understanding of the soul's structure and operations in view of two inconsistent but equally authoritative accounts of the soul's relation to its powers.
A central debate concerned the relation between anarchism and syndicalism (or trade unionism).
The debate concerns the relation between Glarentza and the nearby fortress of Clermont/Chlemoutsi, which in the view of those who consider Glarentza to have originally been unfortified served as the town's citadel, in which case this was probably the original site of the mint, whence its alternative name of "Castel Tornese".
This has been the single most influential argument in recent debates on the relation between erotic art and pornography, winning many supporters (Matthen 2011; Nanay 2012; Neill 2012) but also attracting a substantial amount of criticism (see, for instance, Kania 2012; Davies 2012; van Brabandt and Prinz 2012; Patridge 2013).
Other countries of course had their own debates over the relation between psychology and philosophy.
The opposition parties and crossbench could have refused to debate the industrial relations bills, causing a standoff that could lead to a constitutional challenge if the prime minister pushed ahead with a double dissolution.
