Sentence examples for exist only in relation to from inspiring English sources
The philosophy assumes a reality in which muscles exist only in relation to one another, under strain of a weighted barbell, in the confines of the gym.
Iphigenia does not fall in love, nor does she exist only in relation to the male characters, and she is the author of the important device (freeing Pylades) that will see all of them escaping from the fatal shore.
It is only the official, white-dominated and white-led assault that will give the black group and its members their distinctive identities — they exist only in relation to their oppression, to their victimhood.
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.
Since the self is a bundle of changing psychological and physical attributes whose boundaries are conventionally established, and since its attributes exist only in relation to other things outside its conventionally established boundaries, it ought to dampen attachment its self-regarding cares and concerns and widen the boundaries of its concerns to embrace all life.
Daubert claims, moreover, that not only do states of affairs as cognized (Kenntnisverhalte) exist in dependence of judgments, but that states of affairs as questioned (Frageverhalte) or states of affairs as ordered (Befehlsverhalte) also exist only in relation to acts of question or of order (Schuhmann 2004b, 91).
Maybe my questioners expect me to say Yootha Joyce or Hattie Jacques, but their most famous roles existed only in relation to those of their co-stars - men.
