English Explanatory Dictionary

relationism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The doctrine that relations between things have a real existence.
  2. Karl Mannheim's idea, proposed as a response to relativism, that the recognition of different perspectives according to differences in time and social location appears arbitrary only to an abstract and disembodied theory of knowledge.

Word forms

relationism

Etymology

From relation + -ism.

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