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What is an ordered pair of identical objects?

Background I am reading this book. In the chapter "The Ontology of Metaphysical Realism" the author says: Many relations are such that pairs of objects enter into them only when taken in a certain order. Thus, being the father of is an…
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What philosopher regarded the end and purpose of human life to be in relationships with other individuals?

I remember in my undergrad being taught about some philosopher who regarded the whole end and purpose of human existence to be primarily that of relationship with other people. I dont remember if he used the word love, but it had the implication of…
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Are virtues non-relational?

I was reading this, by Shirong Luo, on the ethics of care care is notoriously difficult to define. As Ruddick points out, at least three distinct but overlapping meanings of care have emerged in recent decades—an ethic defined in opposition to…
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Is discrimination in society bi-directional?

Today I had a discussion with someone about the what is discrimination in society. The person I was talking with thought that discrimination is only one-way, what he meant is that a party puts down or up (negative or positive discrimination) a…
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Are all sufficient conditions necessary?

If X is the necessary condition of A, then it doesn't follow that X is sufficient. However, if X were a sufficient condition, would it also follow that X is a necessary condition? Put otherwise, is a sufficient condition simply a set of all…
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Confucianism and other cultures/peoples

Are there considerations and reflections about other cultures and peoples (than Confucianism and confucianist societies) in Confucianism? For instance concerning the kind of relationship a confucianism adhering individual/people should have with…
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Social Response to Legal/Moral Duty Violation

When a person, especially a public figure, has committed a serious legal or moral violation, there is a tendency for friends/clients/companies/etc. to dissociate from that individual, even if the offence is not of a nature relevant to their prior…
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Grounding without fundamental relations

Philosophers from Leibniz to John Heil have proposed the reduction/elimination of relations to non-relational features of their relata; essentially, they seek to formulate an ontology which does not contain relations as fundamental. Presumably, with…
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Relations between "natural" and "artificial"

When we say "aritificial", we typically mean "created by intelligent being". When we say "natural", we typically mean "created by nature, not by intelligent being". But then is the human created using in vitro fertilisation natural? Or is that…
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What is "ownership"?

So I was partaking in a course about Indigenous Peoples of America (and Canada, in particular). One of the questions that arose was "What is ownership?". (It was actually part of an assignment, but it was already graded). Even though the professor…
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The aggregate effects of human-human interaction

It can be seen that individual human-human interactions vary widely, from positive to neutral to negative. However, I have no empirical evidence on the effects of human-human interactions as an aggregate. My hypothesis is that human-human…
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Does a formula denote it's truth value once the variable is assigned?

In a lot of systems like boolean algebra '=' is treated as a function that takes two inputs and yields a truth value. In first-order logic we often use an expression like 1. p(x)=(x+1=2) and to treat 'x+1=2' as something that can denote a truth…
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What is the relation between narratives and knowledge?

It feels like narratives and knowledge are two related concepts that would appear in some sort of diagram, but I have never seen such a diagram and I'm not sure exactly what the connection between the two looks like. My understanding is that…
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Correct wording for analysis? What is the nature of this relation?

I'm trying to analyse the statement "The computer has the capacity to perform long division", but I can't decide whether to use the connector because or therefore. Which one is more fitting for analysis? "The computer has the capacity to perform…
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Does This Answer The Two Hard Problems – Why Is There Anything? and How Do We Know It?

Question I imagine that most philosophers, professional or amateur, must have some kind of personal philosophical view of their preferred ontology/metaphysic, even if it is incomplete. This is mine as an amateur (although the full version would fill…
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