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external relation
noun
, Philosophy.
- a relation between any two entities such that if they had not been in this relation to each other, the nature of each would not necessarily have been different.
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And to call it an external relation makes no practical difference if it is universal and uniform.
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It interprets this mutual dependence as a purely external relation.
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Innate ideas he conceives as bearing a purely external relation to mind.
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There is a purely external relation existing between sensation and the understanding.
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Activities are qualities which, like all qualities, are in external relation to the substance.
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