O prymacie relacji

• Authors: Adam Grobler

Title variants

EN

On the priority of relations

Abstracts

EN

Russell puts much weight on the concept of relation. In his view relations are real entities that are indispensable in the enterprise of defining mathematical objects, particularly numbers. In the paper I try to extend Russell’s idea beyond the domain of abstract entities. I make an attempt to show that the basic criterion of identity for concrete objects – the criterion of space‑time continuity – can be supplemented, whenever it appears inadequate, by taking into account some relations apart from those that are spatiotemporal. On this occasion I argue for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel and offer some resolutions of the classical paradoxes of identity: amoebas’ reproduction by fission or Theseus’ boat. With respect to relations I argue, against the radical separation of the self from its attributes, that there are essential attributes of the self that constitute its relatively stable individual essence.

Keywords

PL

indywiduacja; indywidualna istota indywiduum; niemożliwe możliwe światy; relacja; tożsamość osobowa

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 337-353

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Adam Grobler

• Uniwersytet Opolski, Katedra Filozofii

• https://orcid.org/0000000234004494

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/pfns.2022.143867

Biblioteka Nauki

55789392