relationismn.
/rᵻˈleɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /rᵻˈleɪʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /rəˈleɪʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /riˈleɪʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Philosophy.
The doctrine that an entity cannot be considered independently of its relations to other entities, and that these relations have a real existence in themselves; spec. the doctrine that space and time are not entities but relations between entities.In quot. 1858: relativism.
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1858 W. R. Pirie Inq. Human Mind iv. 251 The assumption..necessarily runs into nihilism or relationism.
1885 F. 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.
1929 Jrnl. Philos. 26 698 A relationism asserting the reality of relational wholes in which relations and their terms..are indissolubly united.
1958 W. Stark Sociol. of 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.
1975 Nature 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).
2005 D. Hill Divinity & Maximal Greatness vi. 198 Relationism is the view..that goodness and beauty are relations between the subject of the judgement and its object.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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