But the label is usually applied much more broadly to any view explicitly embracing the idea that truth consists in a relation to reality, i.e., that truth is a relational property involving a characteristic relation (to be specified) to some portion of reality (to be specified).
The irony in Oedipus the King consists in the relation between the audience's knowledge of the protagonist's situation and his own ignorance of it.
As to the first, the substantive value that is realised by moral behaviour consists in a relation of "mutual recognition".
The correspondence theory holds that truth consists in a relation of correspondence between something linguistic or quasi-linguistic, on the one hand, and something worldly on the other.
This locates the harmony or agreement in which perfection always consists in the relation between the intentions of the architect and the building that results from his plans and supervision.
On the sense-datum theory, a perceptual experience in which something appears F to one consists in a relation of perceptual awareness to something which is actually F (Level 1).
In these authoritative writings, his criterion of "openness to experience" led him to an acceptance of historical variegation, and to the principle that a human being's relation to the world consists in a total relation of one entity among other entities.
Second, the argument has disturbed the traditional structure of transcendental philosophy, which consists in a linear relation between foundational conditions and founded experience.
The nexus of a drama consists in a distinctive relation of material, poetic mood, motif, plot, and means of presentation" (Dilthey 2002, 107).
For example, most people have the property having longer legs than arms, and indeed seem to have this property in an intrinsic fashion, even though the property consists in a certain relation being satisfied.
