relata
Britishnoun
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After all, what could it mean to talk about relations without relata?
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2014
Produce your theory, not in a few vague phrases of indefinite meaning, but explain it step by step in definite terms referring to assigned relations and assigned relata.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
By a multiple relation I mean a relation which in any concrete instance of its occurrence necessarily involves more than two relata.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
Other schools of philosophy admit relations but obstinately refuse to contemplate relations with more than two relata.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
These other entities are known merely as the relata in relation to the entities of the discerned field.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
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