On Halloween…
"Remember that for Ockham there is nothing in the universe that is
in any way universal except a concept or word: there are no real
natures shared by many things. However, things do resemble one
another, some things more closely than others. So the various
degrees of resemblance give a foundation in reality for our conceptual
structures, such as Porphyry's tree.
Now resemblance (or similitude or likeness) is a relation.
If such relations are realities, then we can say that there are realities
out there that correspond to our conceptual structures."
— R.J. Kilcullen at Macquarie University, course labeled Phil360
"The kernel of a homomorphism is always a congruence.
Indeed, every congruence arises as a kernel."
— Congruence Relation, section on Universal Algebra, in Wikipedia
"Beauty then is a relation."
"An Attempt to Understand the Problem of Universals"
is the title of a talk by Fabian Geier, University of Bamberg—
"The talk was held at Gdańsk University on May 26th 2008."
Related material— Stevie Nicks turns 60.
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