Sentence examples for relation to something from inspiring English sources

One might either (i) reject a relational analysis altogether or (ii) accept a relational analysis, but hold that it involves a relation to something other than what the mental state is about.

"I see my paintings in relation to something else," Ms. Brätsch said.

One of writer's dour friends said, "The fashionable exists only in relation to something that is not that way..

One of writer's dour friends said, "The fashionable exists only in relation to something that is not that way.

I find it very calming, and each time I read one of her poems it has some relation to something that I am doing or feeling at the time.

The inquiry by the committee was the first of its kind since the early 1980s, when an MP last complained about a law firm threatening to sue him in relation to something said in the House of Commons.

Just in the same way we have to conceive that the mnemonic presentation within us is something which by itself is merely an object of contemplation, while, in-relation to something else, it is also a presentation of that other thing.

The second, inspired to Henry of Ghent, admits that being-in-relation-to-something-else (esse ad aliud), i.e., the mode of being of the seven non-absolute categories, does not involve a res distinct from substance, quantity, and quality, but only their real aspects.

But she also thinks there's something about the thesis "that doesn't work in relation to women, something that's not quite right.

She opted to dedicate herself to art and creativity specifically in relation to children -- something for which she has always felt a strong passion.

One example discussed by Hawthorne 2001 is the property of standing in relation R to something, where R is a perfectly natural relation a thing can stand in to itself and to things wholly distinct from it.