reductivists

I never trust anti-reductivists who rely on some mystical qualitative character of an experience.

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Given that non-reductivists construe the nature of paradigmatic relations as sui generis, it is not surprising that they feel the need to resort to metaphors to describe it.

Medieval Theories of Relations

More often than not, however, reductive realists object to non-reductivists on grounds of theoretical parsimony.

Medieval Theories of Relations

The fact that these reductivists regard relations as concepts, however, explains why they too are unwilling to identity relations with their foundations: for the relevant foundations, according to these philosophers, are ordinary, extramental accidents, and obviously no concept (or act of the mind) could be identical with them.

Medieval Theories of Relations

To explain this intuition, some non-reductivists think it is enough to say that a relation can be acquired (or lost) without its subject undergoing any real change with respect to its absolute accidents.

Medieval Theories of Relations

We have seen enough to appreciate the main ontological differences that divide reductive and non-reductive realists, and even some of the differences that divide non-reductivists among themselves.

Medieval Theories of Relations

Because this issue is not simple - the reductivists out there have tried to make it into a simple issue of our constitutional rights and it's not.

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For our purposes, however, what is most interesting about this type of relational situation has to do with complication it presents for reductivists and non-reductivists alike.

Medieval Theories of Relations

Thus, when Simmias is taller than Socrates, reductivists and non-reductivists are agreed that it is an accident of Simmias that directly corresponds to (or as they would prefer to say, is primarily signified by) the concept ˜taller than™, and an accident of Socrates that is primarily signified by the concept ˜shorter than™.

Medieval Theories of Relations

For although reductivists typically affirm that relations are identical to their foundations, and non-reductivists typically deny it, there are some reductivists who side, at least verbally, with the non-reductivists on this question.

Medieval Theories of Relations