What is "relativists"

Usage examples of "relativists".

One of the relativists, Janet Meers, was a lightning calculator, which made her a freak, too, but everybody took it for granted in her and after a while they took what we did for granted.

The relativists were elbowing each other in the computation room and Janet Meers was working out ship's time for Bernie van Houten's appointment with his twin without bothering to put it through the computer because he was first on the list.

The relativists are excited about stuff coming in which is so technical that it has to be retransmitted and confirmed before it is released—this with Janet Meers standing behind you and trying to snatch spools out of the recorder.

The relativists stuck close to him, exchanging excited comments, and so did the engineers, except that they looked baffled and slightly disgusted.

The relativists were elbowing each other in the computation room and Janet Meers was working out ship’s time for Bernie van Houten’s appointment with his twin without bothering to put it through the computer because he was first on the list.

The relativists are excited about stuff coming in which is so technical that it has to be retransmitted and confirmed before it is released-this with Janet Meers standing behind you and trying to snatch spools out of the recorder.

As George Steiner summarizes it, relativists tend to believe that language is not the vehicle of thought but its determining medium.

So Lagos was trying to say that the newborn human brain has no structure-as the relativists would have it-and that as the child learns a language, the developing brain structures itself accordingly, the language gets 'blown into' the 'hardware and becomes a permanent part of the brain's deep structure-as the universalists would have it.

In a fast-foot shuffle to accommodate this awkward state of affairs, the relativists decided that everything should be referred to a nonrotating Earth-centered frame, relative to which everything was moving east, and hence it was possible to describe the three clocks as moving "slow" (westbound), "slower" (Washington, D.