Partial Order Relation

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

    “It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.”
    —Avrum Stroll (b. 1921)

    “Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    “You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)