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  • adjective Not relational.

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non- +‎ relational

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Examples

  • One was a detached, nonrelational guy who was in the building business mainly for money, which by the way we have already seen will not make anyone happy.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • One was a detached, nonrelational guy who was in the building business mainly for money, which by the way we have already seen will not make anyone happy.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • One was a detached, nonrelational guy who was in the building business mainly for money, which by the way we have already seen will not make anyone happy.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • One was a detached, nonrelational guy who was in the building business mainly for money, which by the way we have already seen will not make anyone happy.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • But if ˜patient who met every doctor™ and ˜patient who respects every senator™ are treated as nonrelational, then

    Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

  • Thus, for example, when Price (1950) introduced the notion of sense data, knowledge of which would be included in his foundations of empirical knowledge, he contrasted sense data and their nonrelational properties with other sorts of things about which one could be mistaken, implying again that the way to find the correct foundations of knowledge is to eliminate from one's beliefs system all those beliefs that could be false.

    to day 2009

  • It is objectively true that facts are objective (subject independent, nonrelational) and values are subjective (subject dependent, relational).

    Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 4) 2009

  • It is not as if some information down the road may lead to the conclusion that there are objective values (values that are subject independent and nonrelational — externally imposed rules), because it is not an empirical matter.

    Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 3) 2009

  • If ˜respects some doctor™ and ˜respects some senator™ indicate nonrelational proposition-parts, much like

    Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

  • For instance, while philosophical work on causality has concentrated on the causal relation, this work in logical AI shows that a great deal can be done by using only a nonrelational causal predicate.

    Logic and Artificial Intelligence Thomason, Richmond 2008

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