# relationism

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
From relation + -ism.

## Source
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