Both in his earlier and in his later work in aesthetics, Goodman commits to "a special relation" between the analog and the pictorial, one that is seen when we compare "the presystematic notions of description and picture in a given culture".
One might even argue that claims about "good absolutely" do not justify claims about what one ought to do, without in addition there being a special relation between the agent and the proposed change.
Or, looking to the clever explanations that follow, where perhaps Forms of Fire and Heat, Cold and Snow or Three and Odd are linked, one might ponder whether Forms are indeed utterly simple or monoeidetic, in contrast to an account of Forms in which they may bear a special relation to their essence Three is what it is to be three and a different relation to another property, e.g. oddness.
In this case, as in that of Christianity, the new religion claimed a special relation with Judaism.
And, as Raz notes, expressive arguments apply only to those who actually stand in this special relation; they do not show that it is obligatory to do so, nor that it is obligatory to express one's loyalty in this way rather than some other.
In the following sections, we discuss these agents in their special relation to CKD patients.
It is the depiction of what is called in ethics a special moral relation.
On this approach, judgments of daintiness, dumpiness, delicacy and elegance stand in a special and intimate relation to judgments of beauty and ugliness (or aesthetic merit and demerit), and it is only in virtue of this intimate relation that we can think of all these judgments as belonging to the same category.
"While I would never watch one of my films again, just out of the blue for no reason, the reunion aspect is kind of fun in that my special relation with these films is usually the casts," Mr. Linklater said.
The idea is that these substantive judgments are aesthetic in virtue of a special close relation to verdictive judgments of taste, which are subjectively universal.
