It has generally been assumed that if there is a relation between identity and our practical concerns, it is some sort of univocal relation, running from a single (correct) theory of personal identity to all of our person-related practical concerns (whether it's a grounding relation, an explanatory relation, a revealed relation, or something else).
Von Larisch developed modern alphabets that emphasized the figure-ground relation between the letter and the writing surface.
Borrowings — or, rather, clean thefts — of form from Picasso, Matisse, and Miró infuse welters of charcoal line that set off pink body fragments, in reversible figure-ground relation with passages of golden browns.
A salient place to begin is with the grounding relation.
Is not one of these partitions privileged by the grounding relation?
The grounding relation holds between a set of truths and their immediate consequences.
Bolzano begins by comparing the grounding relation to deducibility and causality.
we have a grounding relation, because the premises are simpler than the conclusion.
While we've been speaking of the grounding relation, some proponents of grounding wish to stay neutral on whether there are any properties or relations, so they, likewise, wish to stay neutral on whether there is a grounding relation.
Bolzano calls the ground-consequence relation Abfolge (translated as "consequence" or "entailment", more recently as grounding; I shall take grounding relation and ground-consequence [Grund und Folge] relation as synonyms: Abfolge = Grund und Folge Verhältnis).
Some are more sanguine about relations and are happy to commit themselves to the existence of a grounding relation.
