Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Privileging objects

Consider this criticism of traditional metaphysics: Traditional metaphysics privileges objects. A natural (though really not all that common) move for philosophers of a certain stripe is to move from a focus on objects to a focus on relationships between objects and to capture this by means of Category Theory. But Category Theory privileges relationships between pairs of objects, and that's at least as bad as privileging single objects.

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