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relatum

British  
/ rɪˈleɪtəm /

noun

  1. logic one of the objects between which a relation is said to hold

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It will of course be a relatum in relations which also implicate other factors of nature.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead

On account of its hierarchical inferiority, matter is often presented as the second, or correlatum, and form as the first, or relatum.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

Thus a situation is an event which is a relatum in the relation of situation.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead

The ‘it’ for thought is essentially a relatum for sense-awareness.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead

This disclosure of an entity as a relatum without further specific discrimination of quality is the basis of our concept of significance.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead

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