Sentence examples for a real relation from inspiring English sources

For example, by the end of thirteenth century, most philosophers use it to explain the doctrine of creation, saying that creatures are related to God by a real relation, whereas God is related to them by a mere relation of reason (cf. Henninger 1989).

Vijnanabhikshu considered the relation between the selves and Matter to be a real relation that affects Matter but leaves the selves unaffected.

Therefore Wyclif distinguished three main types of predication, which he conceived as a real relation that holds between metaphysical entities.

However, one can still believe this and hold that causality is a real relation, and Ockham did so believe (Adams 1987, p. 744; White 1990b).

Prima facie, this sentence expresses a real relation between the ancient Greeks and Zeus; and it is surely a historical fact that the ancient Greeks worshipped Zeus.

The phenomenon of mental 'aboutness' is explicated by the more familiar case of pictorial aboutness, itself reduced to a real relation of resemblance.

Second, it is a form of awareness constituting a real, genuine relation, a relation that cannot obtain without its relata (the things or items related).

All interiors, by definition, occur inside buildings and therefore have a very real relation to these buildings.

One is that at the moment of creation, God becomes temporal in virtue of coming to possess a real, causal relation to his creation of the world, a relation that previously he did not have.

For example, perhaps we think icebergs cause ships to sink only because we always observe ship-sinking events occurring after iceberg-hitting events and not because there is a real causal relation that holds between icebergs and foundering ships.

If this strategy succeeds in defining a real, irreducible relation, then a claim that an agent causes some event may be explicated as a claim that the agent stands to that occurrence in the relation defined by the indicated postulates (Clarke 2003b: 186 91).