A term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition

Usage examples of relatum.

This they palpably are not, if the matter be the substance of nature, since it is impossible to express spatio-temporal truths without having recourse to relations involving relata other than bits of matter.

My own view is a belief in the relational theory both of space and of time, and of disbelief in the current form of the relational theory of space which exhibits bits of matter as the relata for spatial relations.

These other entities are known merely as the relata in relation to the entities of the discerned field.

But we are not aware of them except as entities fulfilling the functions of relata in these relations.

Every type of sense has its own set of discriminated entities which are known to be relata in relation with entities not discriminated by that sense.

A discerned event is known as related in this structure to other events whose specific characters are otherwise not disclosed in that immediate awareness except so far as that they are relata within the structure.

For example, when John likes Thomas there are only two relata, John and Thomas.

But when John gives that book to Thomas there are three relata, John, that book, and Thomas.

The entity is so disclosed as a relatum in the complex which is nature.

For example, the space-relations of the thing seen would have necessitated an entity as a relatum in the place of the thing touched even although certain elements of its character had not been disclosed by touch.

But in discerning an event we are also aware of its significance as a relatum in the structure of events.

Accordingly we are now considering mind as a relatum in sense-awareness.

Thus a situation is an event which is a relatum in the relation of situation.

It will of course be a relatum in relations which also implicate other factors of nature.