relatum
Britishnoun
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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 Binet, Alfred
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 Whitehead, Alfred North
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 Whitehead, Alfred North
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 Whitehead, Alfred North
The entity is so disclosed as a relatum in the complex which is nature.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
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