aliorelativity
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English
Etymology
From aliorelative + -ity or Latin alius (“other”) + relativity.
Noun
aliorelativity (uncountable)
- (philosophy, mathematics) The property or principle that nothing is related to itself by a given relation.
- 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:
- […] Eudemus implies that Speusippus preferred to define objects through arguments from identity and similarity over aliorelativity.