| 单词 | external relation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexternal relation b. Philosophy. external relation: a connection existing between one thing and another which is not intrinsic to the identity of the first thing (cf. internal relation n. at internal adj. and n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > external or internal relation external relation1615 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [noun] > internal or external relation external relation1615 internal relation1883 1615 W. Ames Second Manduction for Mr. Robinson 18 I had thought that the substance & essence of a thing had consisted in matter & forme, & not in such externall relations. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. 196 We must..observe it in those various external Relations in which it stands to other Beings. 1794 P. Will tr. A. Knigge Pract. Philos. Social Life (1799) I. iii. 138 The disposition of our mind depends upon our temper as well as on our health, and on internal and external relations. 1893 F. H. Bradley Appearance & Reality iv. 40 This solid unit, existing only by virtue of external relations, is forced to expand. 1975 Hargreaves & White tr. Wittgenstein Philos. Remarks iii. 63 The essential difference between the picture conception and the conception of Russell, Ogden and Richards, is that it regards recognition as seeing an internal relation, whereas in their view this is an external relation. 1991 Mind 100 41 This thesis that propositions are independent of our consciousness of them, and thus that thought is just an external relation between a thinker and a proposition, already implies a rejection of the omnipresent internal relations characteristic of Bradley's monist metaphysics. < as lemmas |
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