Sentence examples for genuine relations from inspiring English sources

Here Aristotle seems to be suggesting that some relative terms fail to signify genuine relations.

But should we characterize the accidents themselves as genuine relations (i.e., relations secundum esse)?

In sum, all in all most contemporary realists hold that there are both genuine monadic properties and genuine relations.

On this interpretation, Aristotle's definition provides a clear explanation for why heads and hands fail to qualify as genuine relations.

Of course, this still leaves us with the question of how in general we are to distinguish genuine relations from the mere significata of relative terms.

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).

Writer tells about his kind stepmother and her family, who treated him as a genuine relation.

There may seem to be an insuperable obstacle to accepting Stein's relation R as representing a genuine relation of becoming.

Hence having its extension given by a precisification of the GTT is only a necessary condition on being a genuine relation of logical consequence (Beall & Restall 2006, 26 35).

If the belief relation is a genuine relation, then it would seem that it is like kicking: if Jacques Chirac kicked Lionel Jospin and if Lionel Jospin was the French Prime minister in 2001, then Jacques Chirac kicked the French Prime minister in 2001.

Given this assumption, there must be a relation that 'ties' them together to a's being F. If the required 'tie' is a genuine relation, a regress, usually called Bradley's regress, ensues: we need to introduce another relation that ties the first relation to a and being F, and so on.