internal relation

American  

noun

Philosophy.

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

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Etymology

Origin of internal relation

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

A programme which should try to arrange the place of a special discipline in such a way that it would become the neighbor of all those other sciences with which it has internal relation is unthinkable.

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There exist sciences which do not deal with the description or explanation of phenomena at all, but with the internal relation and connection, the interpretation and appreciation of purpose.

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If he did not, the question still remains, what is the internal relation between these two genuine Rhetorics?

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There is always an element of nature present from which the activity proceeds; but this no longer appears, like the family, the caste, the sensuous egotism, as immediately belonging to the individual, but as something outside of himself which limits him, and, as his future life, has an internal relation to him, yet is essential to him and assigns to him the object of his activity.

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The determination of time is not the essential point; that serves only to illustrate the internal relation of these two events, the gradation of these divine blessings; although we are able to demonstrate that, even as regards time, the prophecy was fulfilled in this order.

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