Ontology terms are selected for the Entity, Quality, and (optionally) Related Entity fields, thus supporting annotation of both monadic and relational characters.
How can one reconcile the local and the relational characters of propositional attitudes?
Relational characters and states are those that involve two entities or anatomical structures.
Plato never puts the relational character of speaking (and believing) in question or the requirement that the relata must always exist or obtain.
Section 2 ended on the question: how can we reconcile the fact that singular thoughts are local mental phenomena with the relational character of their intentionality?
By contrast, according to the other version (Dieks 1988, 1989a,b) the properties ascribed to the system do not have a relational character.
The core idea of this interpretation is that all different relational descriptions, given from different perspectives, are equally objective and all correspond to physical reality (which has a relational character itself).
Throughout his dialogues, Plato emphasizes the relational character of various mental states: sight, hearing, touch and perception generally, memory, belief, knowledge, concepts, speech, love (Tht. 152c,160ab, 163e, 188d-189b; Rep. V, 476e, 478b; Parm. 132b-c; Soph. 262e, 263c; Symp. 199d).
In Kochen's words: "The basic change in the classical framework which we advocate lies in dropping the assumption of the absoluteness of physical properties of interacting systems… Thus quantum mechanical properties acquire an interactive or relational character".
Extending this idea, a perspectival modal interpretation (PMI, Bene and Dieks 2002) was developed, in which the properties of a physical system have a relational character and are defined with respect to another physical system that serves as a "reference system" (see Bene 1997).
To frame these political movements in terms of recognition highlights the relational character of morality and justice: Justice is not primarily concerned with how many goods a person should have but rather with what kind of standing vis-à-vis other persons she deserves (Young 1990).
