Concept

Relationalism

Overview

Relationalism is any theoretical position that gives importance to the relational nature of things. For relationalism, things exist and function only as relational entities.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Relationalism

• Charles Hartshorne

Related ideas

• Georg Simmel
• General relativity
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Isaac Newton
• Classical physics
• Loop quantum gravity
• Quantum mechanics
• Special relativity
• String theory
• Spacetime
• Theory
• Relation (philosophy)
• Entity
• Reality
• Carlo Rovelli
• Ernst Mach
• Albert Einstein
• Existence

Place in the tradition

Part of German philosophy.

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