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Relationism and the Problem of Publicity
Author(s) -
Valente Matheus,
Verdejo Víctor M.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12396
Subject(s) - publicity , relation (database) , set (abstract data type) , order (exchange) , epistemology , sociology , computer science , political science , law , business , philosophy , data mining , finance , programming language
According to a recently developed family of relational views, whether two concepts C 1 and C 2 are the same is a matter of an external relation in which their tokens stand. In this paper, we highlight the chief contributions of Relationism in the elucidation of concept sameness, present a set of arguments to the effect that relational accounts of concept sameness fail to accommodate a substantive notion of concept publicity, and offer a diagnosis of this result. We conclude that the strengths of non‐relational approaches will also need to be considered in order to fully capture what it means for a concept to be public.