Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
relate .
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- noun logic A
term that is related to thereferent
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- noun a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus in the first place each of these two entities is known as a relatum in a general system of space-relations and in the second place the particular mutual relation of these two entities as related to each other in this general system is determined.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Whereas envy is a two party relation, with a third relatum that is a good (albeit a good that could be a particular person's affections); and the envious person's locus of concern is the rival.
Envy D'Arms, Justin 2009
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And in this case it is clear that the relation is not the same reality as [the two] foundations because the relation is not in everything in which the foundation of the relatum is.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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And the same thing is true of all relations between being and non-being, which reason forms insofar as it apprehends a non-being as a certain relatum.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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And his point just appears to be that some relational situations are grounded in a single property or accident of a single relatum.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Russell at times used the word "relation" in a broad sense so as to include qualities, which could be considered as "monadic" relations, i.e., relations that only involve one relatum.
Russell's Logical Atomism Klement, Kevin 2005
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Pretiosus Ioannes, vulgo Prete Gianni, vocatur; magno, recepto tamen errore; cum is quondam in Asiae, ut relatum est, regno Tenduc regnaverit.
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The entity is so disclosed as a relatum in the complex which is nature.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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For example, the space-relations of the thing seen would have necessitated an entity as a relatum in the place of the thing touched even although certain elements of its character had not been disclosed by touch.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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This disclosure of an entity as a relatum without further specific discrimination of quality is the basis of our concept of significance.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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