Sentence examples for the relations in which from inspiring English sources

The same human being can be first person 'I', second person 'you', and third person 'he' or 'she', depending on the relations in which he or she stands.

Since Twardowski accepts that among the parts of an object there are the relations in which that object is in, Twardowski's mereology is, strictly speaking, an atomless mereology: there are no simples (1894, §12, 74).

So to avoid violating this transitivity requirement, we simply have to stipulate in our criterion of personal identity that, if the relations in which identity consists may hold one-many, they must obtain uniquely for identity itself to obtain.

Notably, the contrasting conceptual folly has a metaphysical analogue, the insistence that "… things must be, before they can stand in the relations in which indeed alone their reality can become perceptible to us" (Micro, II, p. 583).

Returning to our earlier example of kin terms, the Whorfian orientation suggests we might ask whether or how young Chinese are or are not situated in their families differently than their American cousins, owing to the difference in the specificity of the relations in which they stand and speak with their kin.

In a short essay published 1842, in which he sought to clarify the difference between his own approach to the philosophy of religion and Hegel's, Feuerbach suggested that this difference is most evident in the relations in which each of them stands to Schleiermacher, who famously defined religion as the feeling of utter dependence.

Or Lockwood (1989, p. 88): co-consciousness is "the relation in which two experiences stand, when there is an experience of which they are both parts".

For the Idealists, individualists neglected the spiritual nature of the social organism, which is neither mechanical nor biological, but instead depends upon the relation in which each person stands with every other.

The gender and race constructionists will reject this response and will argue that what makes the claim apt concerns the social relations in which she stands.

Consider how people may understand the same object in different ways that reflect the distinct relations in which they stand to it.

Social wholes are all reducible to individuals and the social relations in which they stand to one another.