If quantum predicates are relational, they are different from many ordinary relations in that the conditions for the relata are taken as criterial for the application of the term.
"Eric's a European intellectual; he doesn't allow ideology to infect the ordinary relations of life".
Harriet Brown, author of the recently released "Brave Girl Eating," a memoir of her 14-year-old daughter's bout with anorexia, defines it as "absolutely ordinary relations with food".
I found that it could not be done with words in their ordinary relations and connections.
From then on, ordinary market relations govern relations among individuals, and their upshot does not impugn the equality of the initial staring point unless new forms of brute luck intervene.
In an ordinary contractual relation diverse contingencies may lead to disputes between the contractual partners that may be best solved by an arbitrator or an ordinary court.
Over the years, Geach has suggested specific instances of RI (a variant of the case of Oscar and his tail is due to Geach (Geach 1980)) and in this way he has contributed to the development of the weak view concerning relative identity, i.e. the view that while ordinary identity relations are often relative, some are not.
The view (call it the 'weak view') is that ordinary identity relations concerning (largely) the world of contingency and change are equivalence relations answering to restricted forms of LL.
net The character of a man insensible to ordinary human relations, who lives the life of pure selfishness which is sometimes supposed to produce great art, has always had its fascination for novelists inspired only by the unusual.
"It is surely the case that many women, following the 'our bodies our selves' movement in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century, have found great good in self-pleasuring — perhaps especially in the discovery of their own possibilities for pleasure — something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands or lovers," she writes.
