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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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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

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

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

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

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

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