Meanings
nounaliorelativity (uncountable)
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe property or principle that nothing is related to itself by a given relation.
[…] Eudemus implies that Speusippus preferred to define objects through arguments from identity and similarity over aliorelativity.
2018, Philip Sidney Horky, “Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy”, in Harold Tarrant et al., editors, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, →ISBN, page 36
Origin
From aliorelative + -ity or Latin alius (“other”) + relativity.
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