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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

aliorelativity en · NOUN

Etymology

From aliorelative + -ity or Latin alius (“other”) + relativity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The 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: