Sentence examples for relational character from inspiring English sources

Plato never puts the relational character of speaking (and believing) in question or the requirement that the relata must always exist or obtain.

Section 2 ended on the question: how can we reconcile the fact that singular thoughts are local mental phenomena with the relational character of their intentionality?

By contrast, according to the other version (Dieks 1988, 1989a,b) the properties ascribed to the system do not have a relational character.

In Kochen's words: "The basic change in the classical framework which we advocate lies in dropping the assumption of the absoluteness of physical properties of interacting systems… Thus quantum mechanical properties acquire an interactive or relational character".

The core idea of this interpretation is that all different relational descriptions, given from different perspectives, are equally objective and all correspond to physical reality (which has a relational character itself).

Extending this idea, a perspectival modal interpretation (PMI, Bene and Dieks 2002) was developed, in which the properties of a physical system have a relational character and are defined with respect to another physical system that serves as a "reference system" (see Bene 1997).

Ontology terms are selected for the Entity, Quality, and (optionally) Related Entity fields, thus supporting annotation of both monadic and relational characters.

How can one reconcile the local and the relational characters of propositional attitudes?

Relational characters and states are those that involve two entities or anatomical structures.

Monadic (non-relational) characters and states are those that involve single entities or anatomical structures.

PF judgments are relational in character: they point out a relation which holds between the consideration r and doing a. (We could call that relation the "favoring" relation).