By Schubert Ogden
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What, exactly, does it mean to be the subject, as distinct from merely the term, of relations?
Whereas x can be merely the term of relations even where the relations in question are all external to x, and therefore do not in any way complicate it, or qualitatively modify it, x can be the subject, as distinct from merely the term, of relations only where the relations in question are all internal to x, and therefore do in some way complicate it, or qualitatively modify it.
September 1995; rev. 30 July 2002