单词 | relatum |
释义 | relatumn. 1. Chiefly Philosophy and Logic. Each of two or more terms, objects, or events between which a relation exists. Cf. referent n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > propositional relation > relate relate1582 relatum1647 related1697 1647 M. Hudson Divine Right of Govt. 83 The parties interested in this Relative blessing of Monarchie..are the Relatum or Monarch, and the Correlatum or Monarchists and subjects. 1651 Revelation Reveled xvi. 152 They comprehend nothing but relata and Correlata. 1717 W. Sclater Orig. Draught of Primitive Church iv. 227 If the Relatum and Correlatum in the Comparison duly answer one another; I conceive it must be so. 1753 G. Anderson Estimate Profit & Loss Relig. vi. 146 Cause and effect are, relata and correlata, ideas inseparable. a1871 G. Grote Aristotle (1872) I. iii. 101 Habit, disposition, perception, cognition, position, &c., are all Relata. 1893 W. Minto Logic i. ii. iii. 118 In mediæval logic the term Relata was confined to these perfect cases, but the Category had a wider scope with Aristotle. 1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 24 The class of terms to which some term has the relation R..I call the class of relata. Thus if R be paternity..the relata will be children. 1922 A. N. Whitehead Princ. Relativity ii. 15 Fact..is..the concreteness of an inexhaustible relatedness among inexhaustible relata. 1974 L. Sklar Space, Time, & Spacetime iii. 167 For temporal and spatiotemporal relata the idealization is that of the instantaneous event. 2003 J. Heil From Ontological Point of View x. 99 Relations are, or certainly seem to be, dependent on their relata in a way that excludes the possibility of relata wholly constituted by relations. 2. Linguistics. Viggo Brøndal's term for: the concept of substance, one of four concepts (along with descriptum, relator, and descriptor) which, in various combinations, form the logical basis of all parts of speech (now rare). Also (in later use): a word or phrase referring to a secondary or background entity to which the focal part of the sentence is related.Brøndal's use broadly corresponds to the Aristotelian category of substance. Cf. descriptum n. 2, relator n. 5, descriptor n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun increaser1612 regulara1637 energizer1751 agent noun1782 nomen actionis1820 segolate1831 class noun1849 patrial1854 nomen agentis1859 metaplast1864 agent word1879 post-genitive1922 conversion-noun1928 noun adjective1930 head noun1933 relatum1933 actant1967 class name1994 1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 12 Recently V. Brøndal..has made a very bold attempt at a completely new system..Relator (R) and Relatum (r), Descriptor (D) and Descriptum (d). 1946 Language 22 219 The relatum is most commonly a noun or other type of substantive expression. 2003 L. B. Tschander in H. Härtl & H. Tappe Mediating Concepts & Gram. 429 The relatum of the source-prepositional phrase refers to an entity that is conceptualized as a part of the entity expressed by the argument prepositional phrase. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647 |
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