Sentence examples for theory of relations from inspiring English sources

We know that logic is closely related to Stumpf's theory of relations and eidology, central elements in both his philosophical and empirical works.

*21 presents the "General Theory of Relations" (the theory of relations in extension; in contemporary logic these are treated as sets of ordered pairs, following Wiener).

Relations form the group of objects whose study belongs to the general theory of relations.

This aspect of the general theory of relations is comparable to Husserl's pure logic.

Summing up, Schröder constructed an algebraic version of modern predicate logic and also a theory of relations.

De Morgan gets credit for introducing the concept of relation, but Peirce is considered the true creator of the theory of relations (see, e.g., Tarski 1941: 73).

In making relations modes of being of the foundation, James was clearly taking his cue from Henry of Ghent, who has been called "the chief representative of the modalist theory of relation" (Henninger 1989).

An excellent survey of the medieval theories of relations is provided by Henninger 1989.

Although Aristotle discusses relations at various places in his work, his discussion in the Categories is the most important for understanding the development of medieval theories of relations.

Since medieval philosophers develop their theories of relations in the course of reflecting on Aristotle's Categories, they often present their views as the one actually suggested (or even required) by the text itself.

For some of the main topics in metaphysics on which medieval philosophers sharpened their wits, see the articles binarium famosissimum, existence, Medieval Mereology, the medieval problem of universals, medieval theories of causality, medieval theories of haecceity, and medieval theories of relations.