relatum

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noun

A term that is related to the referent.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounrelatum (plural relata)

plural relata

  1. human sciencesA term that is related to the referent.

    For according to the externalist, the opposing view rests on the idea that “being conscious of” is a genuine relation, that is, a relation whose obtaining entails the existence of its relata.

    2007 July 12, Harold Langsam, “Rationality, Justification, and the Internalism/Externalism Debate”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI
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    And with respect to secondary processes, whether a PDT becomes an ADT will vary according to both the ADTs a person has acquired through primary acquisition processes (for this determines which objects can be the relata in the relational properties) and according to the individual’s experiential and epistemic history with respect to disgust elicitors.

    2003, Christopher Knapp, “De-moralizing Disgustingness”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXVI, № 2, page 265

    However we understand the defect, most divine determinists will likely wish to say that the relation of inconformity between act and law obtains (when it does obtain) merely in virtue of the intrinsic natures of the relata. In other words, the relation of inconformity follows merely upon the nonrelational characteristics of the relata.

    2019, Peter Furlong, The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, page 94

Origin

  1. Latinrelatum
  2. Englishrelatum

From Latin relatum, neuter past participle of referre.

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