The phrase "a certain relation of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific type of relationship or connection between concepts, objects, or individuals.
Example: "In the study of sociology, researchers often explore a certain relation of power dynamics within communities."
Alternatives: "a specific relationship of" or "a particular connection of".
Each stone encapsulates a certain relation of landscape, building, machine, power and nature.
Descartes himself wrote little on artistic topics, even in his Compendium Musicæ, and he is even doubtful about the possibility of a true analysis of aesthetic responses, since the beautiful and the pleasant "mean nothing more than a certain relation of our judgment to the object considered and cannot have any determinate measure" (Letter to Mersenne, March 18 , 1630.
A transformation is defined as a certain relation of an output signal to an input signal.
According to Kant, to say that a pleasure is interested is not to say that it is self-interested in the Hobbesian sense, but rather that it stands in a certain relation to the faculty of desire.
For being is said in a prior sense of God and in a posterior sense of creatures by virtue of a certain relation between the two; likewise, being is said first of substance and secondarily of accidents, on account of the relation of posteriority accidents have to substance.
The authors consider an exact reduction relation as a certain relation between potential models of the respective theories.
Talking about the "external dimension" of ideas, we made — following Bolzano — intensive usage of a certain relation R between ideas and their objects that is basic in Bolzano's theory of ideas.
There was a certain relation between the water activity (aW) of the IL/H2O mixtures and the current density of BOD.
Legal validity of a norm now entails that the norm was either created by official communication and survived interpretive scrutiny or that it bears a certain relation, defined by the general point of legal practice, to such survivor norms.
These relations have their terminal specification and their reason in punishment (which can be a fine, the refusal of communion in confession, the imposition of a certain relations between working forces and leading forces, etc.).
In many discussions of deflationism, for example, the opponent is assumed to be a particular version of a correspondence theory that attempts to reduce the correspondence relation to certain relations of causation (Field 1986 is a good example).
