aliorelativity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

aliorelative +‎ -ity or Latin alius (other) +‎ relativity

Noun[edit]

aliorelativity (uncountable)

  1. (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.