external relation

American  

noun

Philosophy.

1. a relation between any two entities such that if they had not been in this relation to each other, the nature of each would not necessarily have been different.

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Example Sentences

The job advertisement did go into details of external relation positions, but separate posts showed the managers will handle government relations as well.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2021

U.S.-based Tesla, which is making electric Model 3 sedans and Model Y sport-utility vehicles in Shanghai, is hiring external relation managers in several Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2021

In a Jan. 3 statement, Linda Argo, American University’s assistant vice president for external relation, said the school is sorry to lose the shop but the District’s “changing demographics and purchasing habits” made Johnson’s unprofitable.

From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2018

Thus the external relation, which we call occupation or first possession, is not of itself imagined to be the property of the object, but only to cause its property.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

The reciprocity of interests, represents that rudimentary form of morality in which interests enter only into an external relation, through which they secure an exchange of benefits without abandoning their independence.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton