Sentence examples for a special relation from inspiring English sources

Russell (e.g., 1940, Chapter 6) held that a substance just is a bundle of universals themselves related by a special relation between properties, known as compresence.

Castañeda takes fictional objects to be bundles of guises related by a special relation of consociation; see Castañeda (1989 ch.11).) where the subject is not a particular US President like George W. Bush or Barack Obama, but rather the role or office of US President.

Furthermore, each zodiacal sign has a special relation with a part of the human body.

In this case, as in that of Christianity, the new religion claimed a special relation with Judaism.

These writers have a special relation to the "outside contained on the inside" feature of academic creative-writing programs, and many of the most celebrated have been accused of inauthenticity.

Values can be seen as a special relation between the object (that has value) and the subject (for whom the object has value).

Not only that, if a doctor has any special relation with a company, we can identify that by seeing most of the products of that company in the prescription and can form our strategy to [make them switch their preference]." - MR "… by monitoring prescriptions, we can identify prescribing habits of a doctor.

Only these first two statements construe the distinctive feature of self-knowledge as plainly epistemic; however, most who endorse (3) also claim that this agential relation grounds a special epistemic relation.

"But our national interest doesn't require any special relations with Iran because of this.

To the extent that the characteristic spectrum of an atom or a molecule (i.e., the light emitted or absorbed by it) is regarded as a physical property, the special relation between spectroscopy and isotopy warrants individual treatment here.

Mill's view is that one has as a matter of fact this special relation to one's own body; it largely determines one's identity as a person.