Partial Order Relation

Famous quotes containing the words partial, order and/or relation:

    We were soon in the smooth water of the Quakish Lake,... and we had our first, but a partial view of Ktaadn, its summit veiled in clouds, like a dark isthmus in that quarter, connecting the heavens with the earth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new
    And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
    Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
    William James (1842–1910)