The history of ontology has consisted largely of a set of fundamental, often long-running and implacable disputes about what there is, accompanied by reflections about the discipline's own methods, status, and fundamental concepts e.g., being, existence, identity, essence, possibility, part, one, object, property, relation, fact, and world.
(2) There are relations (or relational facts) that do not supervene on the intrinsic and spatio-temporal properties of their relata.
The results of our research show (King et al., 2004; Soldatova et al., 2006; Whelan and King 2008) that the representation of logical and mathematical objects (i.e. sets, relations, facts) and other entities within a computer system as abstract entities provides a clearer description of computational experiments and experiments executed in automated laboratories.
He adds that while in our reasonings we start from the knowledge of relations or facts and infer some previously-unknown relation or fact, moral evaluation cannot proceed until all the relevant facts and relations are already known.
The piece is concerned with raising questions about the relation between fact and fiction, activating those questions in peculiar ways — but the questions, not the answers, are what strike me as interesting.
The star of this absurdist evening in American politics, of course, was a reality-TV star representing the apotheosis of such a spectacle, only without substance or relation to fact.
But Mr le Carré's equivocation about the novel's relation to fact undermines its effectiveness as a work of social criticism, which is pretty clearly what it aspires to be.
In relation to fact gathering, I will be robust.
Some reasons for doubting this have been discussed already; they include the complexity of the genotype-phenotype relation, the fact that population genetics treats development as a black-box, and the idealizing assumptions that its models rest on.
If concrete events, processes and states are identical with facts or can be constructed out of facts, then it is plausible to think that causality is a relation between facts.
Nowadays, the kids I see know all about human sexual relations, in fact, they are practically experts.
