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Considerations concerning the Doctrine of Multitude

In a […] general sense, a collection is simply an individual object whose being consists in the being of whatever objects there may be of a certain general description, these objects being called its members, so that every proposition concerning the collection as subject is equivalent to some relative proposition concerning the members as subjects. But this definition leaves it undetermined what the relation is to be between what is predicated, in any proposition, concerning the collection and the relative predicate concerning the members in the interpreting proposition.

A dyadic relation is a genaral character of dyads, or ordered pairs. [—] A genuine dyadic relation is one which does not consist in the two members of any dyad between which it subsists having certain qualities.

…existence consists in the blind reactions between objects in one universe. No mere law, no “would-be”, can make that exertion of blind strength.

A triadic relation is a general relation of triads, or ordered triplets. [—] A genuine triadic relation is one which neither consists of dyadic relations nor of monadic characters.