relatum
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But it is always a relatum and never the relation itself.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
The soul is the relatum, and is unintelligible and void of sense without its correlatum.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
Accordingly we are now considering mind as a relatum in sense-awareness.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
But in discerning an event we are also aware of its significance as a relatum in the structure of events.
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
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