The Reality of Relations
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Laura Candiotto [1]
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[1] University of Edinburgh
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- Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Intuizione ed emotività / coord. por Angelo Cicatello, Luigi Filieri), págs. 537-551
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Discussing the contemporary debate about the metaphysics of relations and structural realism, I analyse the philosophical significance of relational quantum mechanics (rqm). Relativising properties of objects (or systems) to other objects (or systems), rqm affirms that reality is inherently relational. My claim is that rqm can be seen as an instantiation of the ontology of ontic structural realism, for which relations are prior to objects, since it provides good reasons for the argument from the primacy of relation. In order to provide some evidence, rqm is interpreted focusing on its metametaphysics, in particular in relation to the very concept of relation, and to the meaning such concept assumes in the dispute between realism and antirealism.
