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relativization|rɛlətɪvaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[f. next + -ation.]
1. Physics. A relativistic treatment of a problem or theorem. rare.
1921H. L. Brose tr. Moszkowski's Einstein the Searcher vii. 162 Now, the conception of time has been entirely revolutionized by Einstein himself... We thus approach a relativization of causality... Something physiological that ultimately..resolves itself into a relativization of time.
2. The action of making relative; the fact or process of being made relative. Freq. in Philos. and Linguistics.
1942Mind LI. 237 This is not exclusive subdivision, but relativization or canalization. 1945Polish Sci. & Learning vi. 19/1 The relativization of the definability of a sign ‘a’ to a set of propositions X becomes obvious. 1948L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 73 His [sc. Cervantes'] humor, which admits of many strata..of relativization and dialectics—bears testimony to his high position above the world. 1959K. R. Popper Logic Sci. Discovery 346, I only learned from Rényi's paper how fertile this relativization could be. 1968Language XLIV. 55 Relativization, Relative reduction and Modifier inversion were set up to handle other constructions. 1977M. Dummett Elem. Intuitionism v. 206 The relativization property guarantees that the logical laws which hold good whenever the individual variables are taken as ranging over any admissible domain also hold good when they are confined to some inhabited subdomain which can be characterized by a predicate of the language. |