RELATION IS AN APPENDAGE EXISTING ONLY AMONG DEFINITE OBJECTS.

16. As to relation, which, so to speak, is only an offshoot or

appendage,[317] it could certainly not be posited amidst the primary

genera. Relation can exist only between one thing and another; it is

nothing which exists by itself; every relation presupposes something

foreign.

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