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reˈlationism Philos.
[f. relation n. + -ism.]
a. The doctrine of the relativity of knowledge; relativism.
b. The doctrine that relations have a real existence.
1858W. R. Pirie Inq. Hum. Mind iv. 251 The assumption..necessarily runs into nihilism or relationism. 1885F. E. Abbot Sci. Theism Introd. ii. 25 Relationism or Scientific Realism..teaches that universals, or genera and species, are, first, objective relations of resemblance among objectively existing things. 1958W. Stark Sociol. Knowl. viii. 338 By the concept of relationism he [sc. K. Mannheim] means that if we formulate a truth, we should not do so in abstract and absolute terms, but must always include in the formula the concrete conditions to which it is related. 1975Nature 1 May p. iv (Advt.), The book is concerned with space and time as abstract relations which hold between objects and events (relationism), and as aspects of nature with causal properties of their own (absolutism). |