Relational Art — (or relationalismhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/art safari1.shtml RELATIONAL ART: IS IT AN ISM?] ) is defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, co founder and former co director of Paris art gallery Palais de Tokyo as a set of artistic… … Wikipedia
Relational quantum mechanics — This article is intended for those already familiar with quantum mechanics and its attendant interpretational difficulties. Readers who are new to the subject may first want to read the introduction to quantum mechanics. Relational quantum… … Wikipedia
Relational order theories — A number of independent lines of research depict the universe, including the social organization of living creatures which is of particular interest to humans, as systems, or networks, of relationships. Relational systems, or regimes, are often… … Wikipedia
Relational theory — …: This article is about relational theory in physics and philosophy. There is a separate article about the relational model (database) and Relational Philosophy as a category of Philosophical anthropology In physics and philosophy, a relational… … Wikipedia
space — The classical questions include: is space real, or is it some kind of mental construct, or artefact of our ways of perceiving and thinking? Is it ‘substantival’ or purely ‘relational’? According to substantivalism, space is an objective thing… … Philosophy dictionary
Container space — The container theory of space is a metaphysical theory according to which space is a background against which objects rest and move, with the implication that it can continue to exist in the absence of matter. Its opposite is the relational… … Wikipedia
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Comparison of relational database management systems — Programming language comparisons General comparison Basic syntax Basic instructions Arrays Associative arrays String operations … Wikipedia
Philosophy of space and time — is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time. While such ideas have been central to philosophy from its inception, the philosophy of space and time was both an… … Wikipedia
Chu space — Chu spaces generalize the notion of topological space by dropping the requirements that the set of open sets be closed under union and finite intersection, that the open sets be extensional, and that the membership predicate (of points in open… … Wikipedia