Sentence examples for As a relation from inspiring English sources

Questions remain about the nature of this causal relation understood as a relation that relates both token events and universals.

Therefore, in order to maintain itself as a relation which relates itself to itself, the self must constantly renew its faith in "the power which posited it".

Pig operators process the whole data set that can be treated as a relation on which relational operators are applied naturally.

The false proposition that Venus orbits Neptune is thought to be a complex containing Venus and Neptune the planets, as well as the relation of orbiting, with the relation occurring as a relation, i.e., as relating Venus to Neptune.

In that case, however, we should have to admit that an individual substance is a relation (since, as we have seen, whatever corresponds to a relational concept and plays the relevant metaphysical role qualifies as a relation).

One might think of this as a relation, except that there is no act there yet for one to be related to in the obligated way.

The presence of the wife's brother signified the importance of marriage as a relation of exchange between men rather than a mechanism concerned only with ensuring reproduction.

A function f can be regarded as a relation between each object x in its domain and the value f(x).

A Chinese journalist, presenting himself as a relation of a patient waiting for a kidney transplant at Zhengzhou hospital, was told by a Dr Shi: "Hurry up if you want a quick transplant.

This fact refutes the contention of the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke (and of other philosophers in the Empiricist tradition) that time is perceived only as a relation between successive sensations.

Then find is directly interpreted as a relation between individuals.