relativize
/ˈrɛlətɪvʌɪz
/(also relativise)
verb [with object]
1chiefly Linguistics & Philosophy Make or treat as relative to or dependent on something else: it is not that such judgements do not have a truth value, but that they do not have one unless relativized in a particular way...
- For example, moral subjectivism is that species of moral relativism that relativizes moral value to the individual subject.
- I arrive at the conclusion that it is a symptom of a more general phenomenon whereby contextual parameters can be relativized to bearers of propositional attitudes.
- It is not the same, since truth for Hellenistic philosophers is relativized to times.
1.1 Physics Treat (a phenomenon or concept) according to the principles of the theory of relativity: the way Einstein relativizes motion...
- It only takes a cursory look at Einstein's calculations to see that this attempt to relativize rotation is a nonstarter.
- The bare facts of Einstein's initiation into the problem of relativizing gravitation theory are known.
Derivatives
relativization
- In effect, this approach amounts to a relativisation of growth.
- And as this community broadens in spread and significance, we are effectively implicated in the relativization of the rest who remain on the outside of its borders.
- For many, Darwin's theory led to a pure relativization and naturalization of ethics.
- fabliau
- Fablon
- Fabre, Jean Henri
- Fabriano, Gentile da
- fabric
- fabricate
- fabrication
- fabricator
- fabric conditioner
- Fabricius, Johann Christian
- fabric softener
- fabrosaur
- fabrosaurid
- Fabrosaurus
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer
- fabulate
- fabulation
- fabulator
- fabulist
- fabulosity
- fabulous
- fabulously
- fabulousness
- fac.
- facade