Sentence examples for relation rather than a from inspiring English sources

Of special interest in this regard is the fact that he considered the relation of similarity to be a triadic relation, rather than a dyadic relation.

If these axioms are to be formulated for a language like set theory that lacks names for all objects, then axioms 5 and 6 require the use of a satisfaction relation rather than a unary truth predicate.

If such a realist believes motion to be by nature a relation rather than a property (and as we saw in the Section 1, not all philosophers accept this) then she will feel obliged to accord some sort of existence or reality to the structure — e.g., the structure of Galilean spacetime — in relation to which these motions are defined.

It will be promoted through social media and public relations rather than a traditional advertising campaign with elements like television commercials or print advertisements.

Of course, there are larger philosophical questions lingering beneath such a show for example, should it bother us that the corporate embrace of diversity is often driven by risk analysis and public relations rather than a desire for true social change?

Of course, there are larger philosophical questions lingering beneath such a show — for example, should it bother us that the corporate embrace of diversity is often driven by risk analysis and public relations rather than a desire for true social change?

Reflection on the role that considerations of background theory play in determining how it is reasonable for one to respond to new information have convinced some that the normative notion of evidence is better understood in terms of a three place-relation rather than a two-place relation.

The statistical correlation among events therefore has no causal relations, rather than a kind of coincidences.

Should Netanyahu finally decide to bring Livni in, and make a genuine effort to end the conflict, he could dramatically improve Israel's image and live up to his reputation as a master of public relations rather than a demagogue.

The city features here as a heterogeneous association of actors and relations rather than a civic whole.

Suppose properties (whether assayed as universals or as tropes) are ontological parts of the ordinary (thick) particulars that have them and that this having is understood quasi-mereologically as a kind of part-whole relation rather than as an exemplification relation that spans the abstract-concrete divide.