单词 | aliorelative |
释义 | aliorelativen.adj. Logic and Philosophy. A. n. A relation which can never hold between a term and itself; an irreflexive relation. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > relations between terms aliorelative1873 reflexiveness1903 reflexivity1931 1873 C. S. Peirce in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. New Ser. 9 369 Simple relatives are divisible into those which contain elements of the form (A:A) and those which do not. The former express relations such as a thing may have to itself, the latter (as cousin of ——, hater of ——) relations which nothing can have to itself. The former may be termed self-relatives, the latter alio-relatives. 1920 B. Russell Introd. Math. Philos. (ed. 2) iv. 33 It often happens that a relation is an aliorelative without being asymmetrical. 1969 Philos. Rev. 78 77 The notion of self-participation would..be harshly counter-intuitive: μετέχειν, μεταλαμβάνειν are always used as aliorelatives in Greek prose. B. adj. Designating a relation which can never hold between a term and itself; = irreflexive adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > relating to other types of terms concrete?1499 adequate1615 reflexive1903 aliorelative1915 1915 Mind 24 556 A very simple example..is the relation north of. It is transitive; for the fact that Cambridge is north of London and York north of Cambridge implies that York is north of London. It is aliorelative; for no place is north of itself. 1934 Mind 43 224 This is also guaranteed by my definition..provided R [sc. a relation] is assumed alio-relative. 1989 Rev. Metaphysics 43 273 It turns out that the logical relationship of being to itself is not exemplification, or any aliorelative match, but sameness. 2002 R. Rehm Play of Space 402 The concept ‘in’ is aliorelative.., meaning that the relationship between body and its topos involves two different terms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1873 |
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