Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 63
Relation-in-extension/Prior: two-digit predicates can be associated in the same manner with relation-in-extension - E.g. Both: being-father-and-mother-of is not the same as both: be-greater-and-smaller-than but when the corresponding "relation-in-extension" are the same.
I 111
Relation: Richard thinks of Joan": this is a relation (also a sentence about two people).
But "Richard thinks that p": this is no relation.
E.g. to think: "someone is next door" this is no relation to anyone - (also not, when someone makes the thought come true).
>Reference, >Relation theory.
Thinking needs no object.
>Objects of thought, >Objects of belief
I 114
Thinking/Prior: needs no object: E.g. "someone is next door": no relation to someone. - In the sense of "about" (about, aboutness).
>"About"/Prior.
E.g. someone has stolen my pencil "until I realize that I have lost it. Solution/Prior: thinking - "of" one can think of something arbitrary, non-existent (or "of", "of", (later Vs). - But not thinking- "about".
>Unicorn-example).
"Of", "about" is ambiguous: I can also think that I think something of x and later learn that x does not exist, but that does not stop my thinking.
>Non-existence.
Prior: but not difference "thinking in general" and "content".
>Content.
Variant: "if I believe in the existence of x, I can think something of x": Vs: then someone who does not believe in it, cannot think that I think something of x.
I 136
Relation/Prior: belief is no relation, otherwise relation to Cicero = relation to Tullius - real relations have converses.
>Converse.