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	Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		In the 20th century, Reichenbach and the early Einstein declared the special theory of relativity to be a victory for the relational theory.
		If the relational theory were to consider spacetime points to be permanent possibilities of the location of events, then the relationist theory would collapse into substantivalism, and there would no longer be a difference between the two theories.
		On a relational theory it is difficult to make sense of this, but on a substantival theory of time, the flow could slow down on Friday because fewer events happen then than on Thursday.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/time.htm (16719 words)

	Causality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Representing the current understanding of causality as the relation of cause and effect, this covers the modern definitions of "cause" as either the agent, agency, particular events, or states of affairs.
		The Nobel Prize holder Herbert Simon and Philosopher Nicholas Rescher claim that the asymmetry of the causal relation is unrelated to the asymmetry of any mode of implication that contraposes.
		Rather, a causal relation is not a relation between values of variables, but a function of one variable (the cause) on to another (the effect) (Simon and Rescher, 1966).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Causality (4486 words)

	Information and Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This intuition is fleshed out in [Fodor, 1990e] in terms of a relation of asymmetric dependence between laws, which is itself specified in terms of a pair of subjunctive conditionals: a law L
		Finally, while the asymmetric dependence account is arguably successful in dispatching many instances of the grain problem, it remains helpless to mark distinctions in content between properties whose covariation is metaphysically necessary.
		Boghossian argues that Fodor's asymmetric dependence view collapses onto an optimal conditions theory, and that it is therefore susceptible to the kinds of objections that Fodor himself raises against the latter view.
	aardvark.ucsd.edu /~joncohen/mind/informational_semantics.html (6731 words)

	Ontological Dependence
		Technically, this means that we should strictly describe explanation as an ‘antisymmetric’ rather than as an asymmetric relation—a point to which we shall return, though we may ignore it for the time being.) The asymmetry of explanation is, of course, intimately related to the unacceptability of circular arguments.
		Notice that the relation thus defined is asymmetric (rather than antisymmetric): it doesn't permit any object to be existentially dependent upon itself.
		We spoke a moment ago of the relation of identity-dependence as being a relation of the sort that we seek.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/dependence-ontological (6490 words)

	Europe and the Post-Modern Left
		In this article, I argue that George Bush and Tony Blair's appeal to common ideals in their attempt to recruit Europe to the task of reshaping the Middle East is fundamentally mistaken: such common ideals do not exist.
		By the same token, the shallowness of the hard left case and the intimate commercial relations between America and Europe will work to suppress the most virulent opposition to America.
		Nevertheless, it is utterly predictable that the Iraqi war will inspire the hard left broadsheets and opinion makers - in Europe and America - to willfully exaggerate the suffering of Muslim civilians, to lie about death totals, and to print spit-spewing rants about American genocide.
	www.wildmonk.net (7397 words)

	Purpose-driven software development - Standblog - Tristan Nitot sur les standards du W3C, les navigateurs et la ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Richard Siklos, the author of this article even mentions Firefox as an example of a trend that also impacts the software industry.
		Tim O'Reilly takes the ball further in his purpose-driven media blog post, referencing Frank Hecker's Asymmetric competition article.
		I'll save my thinking for a future post (this one is already too long), but I want to mention a few things that are related to this:
	standblog.org /blog/2006/04/03/93114730-purpose-driven-software-develo... (838 words)

	SS > factoids
		W. Anderson • antisymmetric relation • APL •
		art • Asimov's laws • asymmetric relation • atheist • autopoeisis • awk
		Eric Raymond reflexive relation • rewrite rules • Theodore Roosevelt • Bertrand Russell
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/cyc/index.htm (595 words)

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