Yet, it might be argued, ordinary language allows for the relata to be described in eventive, factive, and other forms. |
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In any case, eliminativism does not require that there be relations without relata, just that the relata not be individuals. |
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They do not take place or occur, and they are not the relata in causal relations, whereas events are. |
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Second, there is the argument from determinacy, which maintains that the causal relata must be four for causal relations to be well defined. |
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Insofar as each of these relata may contain a number of possible worlds, logicians and decision theorists commonly take combinative preferences to have states of affairs as their relata. |
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The argument is that without distinct individuals that are metaphysically prior to the relations, there is nothing to stand in the irreflexive relations that are supposed to confer individuality on the relata. |
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Question: How are the causal relata individuated? |
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Relata of combinative preferences typically are not specified enough to be mutually exclusive. |
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