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Relational  adj.  
1.
Having relation or kindred; related. "We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems."
2.
Indicating or specifying some relation. "Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc."





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"Relational" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought and all secondary mental figments, and, third, the equilibrium and total power of that new organism in action represented by the ideal. Spirituality, which might have resided in the elementary values, sensuous or passionate, before the relational process supervened, can now exist only in the ultimate activity to which these processes are instrumental. Obstacles to spirituality in human life may accordingly take the form of an arrest either at the elementary values—an entanglement in sense and passion—or at the instrumental ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... Lloyd Morgan puts it, "We are mainly at work upon the mental background. It is our object to make this background as rich and full and orderly as possible, so that whatever is brought to the focus of consciousness shall be set in a relational background, which shall give it meaning; and so that our pupils may be able to feel the truth which Browning puts into the mouth of ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith


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