relational theory

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theory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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Nameless processes and theirrelationaltheoryform a coherent universe in their own right, which underlies existing graphical formalisms such as proof nets.
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However, the psychological implications of this very different kind of relational practice seem likely to contrast markedly with those described withinrelationaltheory.
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Lattice theory can be formulated as arelationaltheory, with two additional basic relations and existential axioms instead of functions (constructions).
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Since the late 1980s, a direction in psychoanalysis often referred to as relational psychoanalysis or justrelationaltheoryhas developed.
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Her research interests are in social andrelationaltheory, urban sociology, and social policy.
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Someone who has constructed arelationaltheoryor promotes relational theorising is called a relationist.
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This personal identity ontology assumes therelationaltheoryof life-sustaining processes instead of bodily continuity.
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Its opposite is therelationaltheory.
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Mach's suggestion can be taken as the injunction that gravitation theories should be relational theories.
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Macneil explains that this is only one of a number of possible relational theories of contracts, and accordingly renamed his own version essential contract theory.
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