Abstract
Among the sentences with many-place predicates there are some which have no parts which are themselves sentences. They have the structure s1 R s2 or (s1,...,sn)R or can be reduced to such a form through linguistic transformations which do not change their sense. For example, the sentences “a is bigger than b by two” can be transformed into “a is twice as big as b”, where “twice as big as” is the R. These sentences and their intrinsic negations sl ┐ R s2 and (s1,..., sn) ┐ R, and the indeterminate forms s1? R s2 and (s1,..., sn)?R and their extrinsic negations are called sentences about relations or, for short, r-sentences. That which is talked about in such sentences are called relations. Different indices on R1, R2,... will indicate that the relations differ somehow (“is larger than”, “is farther than”, etc.).
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Zinov’ev, A.A. (1973). Relations. In: Foundations of the Logical Theory of Scientific Knowledge (Complex Logic). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2501-0_17
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