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

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

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

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

Human beings, least of all, sustain the bare external relation of mere means to the great ideal aim.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Merely to be ‘with’ one another in a universe of discourse is the most external relation that terms can have, and seems to involve nothing whatever as to farther consequences.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William