Examples of relativity

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Consider first the value of friendship, and to eliminate relativities consider only friendships among strangers.
The relativities between the four editions are, however, essentially maintained.
Egalitarians are concerned with relativities: with how each person's level compares with the level of other people.
The degree depends on relativities of size and power.
In national negotiations at a large dairy chain the employers used external relativities to keep the annual pay settlement down.
In its post-strong-foundationist spirit, contemporary hermeneutics embraces the instability of signs, the relativity of premises and contexts.
Why nouns are learned before verbs: linguistic relativity versus natural partitioning.
Could there be the equivalent of such grand deductive theories as law of gravity, relativity and evolution in the bioinformatics of genes and neurons?
In each of the three following subsections, issues of transfer will be discussed in relation to possible universals as well to relativity.
Conceptual transfer can accordingly be defined as those cases of linguistic relativity involving, most typically, a second language.
Caution is necessary in analyzing the connection between transfer and relativity.
Before examining such cases, however, a look at the history of relativity in relation to transfer will provide some useful background.
They are still arguing about the scientific theories of the early years of this century, like relativity and quantum mechanics.
The validity of moral rules might be relative to specific cultures or tastes, but given that relativity, their validity does not change over time.
The relativity of the excesses over the six winters in respiratory disorders was broadly consistent in each data series (three age groups, three parameters).
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