Relation


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1 The general theory of relation.
2 The nature and being of relations, the distinction between real and logical or ideal relations.
3 The effect of relations on the nature and being of things, internal and external relations.
4 The coexistence of correlatives.
5 Relational unity or identity of relation, the notion and use of analogy or proportionality.
6 Order and relation in God, the divine processions and the relations constituting the Trinity of persons.
7 The relation of God to the world, divine immanence and transcendence Relation in the order of thought or knowledge.
8 The definability or indefinability of relative terms.
9 The proposition or judgment as a statement of relation, relation in reasoning.
10 The transcendental categories of relation.
11 Relations as objects of knowledge, ideas of relation.
12 The relations between ideas.
13 The types of relationship underlying the association of ideas in thought, memory, and dreams.
14 Order as a system of relationships or related things.
15 The nature and types of order, inclusion and exclusion, succession and coexistence, priority, posteriority, and simultaneity.
16 The order of the causes or of cause and effect.
17 The order of goods or of means and ends, the order of loves.
18 The order of quantities, the types of proportion, series of numbers.
19 The order of kinds, hierarchy, species and genus.
20 The order of the universe or of nature, the hierarchy of beings.
21 Order as a principle of beauty.
22 The absolute and the relative modes of consideration.
23 Absolute and relative with respect to space, time, motion.
24 Absolute and relative with respect to truth.
25 Absolute and relative with respect to goodness or beauty.


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