relationistn.adj.

1817 T. Brown Lect. Philos. Human Mind (1820) II. xlvii. 514 If I were to invent a name for the opinion with respect to universals, which I hold, it would not be as a Conceptualist, but as a Notionist, or Relationist, that I should wish to be classed.

1885 W. James in Mind 10 31 And may not the ‘relationists’ be right after all?

1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought iii. 89 The former alternative is taken by the Relationist... Time just consists of the relations of before and after among events.

1974 L. Sklar Space, Time, & Spacetime iii. 167 According to the relationist, the postulation of space, time, or spacetime as entities..is simply a confusion.

1988 Mind 97 546 The notion of an internal causal power making a body to move in a straight line is difficult to make any sense of, particularly for a relationist.

1854 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic 373 It is a sufficient refutation of the relationist doctrine to ask—what is this total synthesis known in relation to?

1917 Philos. Rev. 26 107 If we accept the relationist theory of space, then apparent space is only a complex of certain relations between apparent objects.

1975 Nature 6 Feb. 485/3 Wishing to retain a pure relationist stance, he proposes that the statement ‘is absolutely accelerated’ is not a relational term, giving it instead the status of a complete assertion.

2004 B. Greene Fabric of Cosmos ii. 31 This was not a capitulation to Newton's absolute space, but it was a strong blow to the firm relationist position.