The phrase "a real relation between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the existence or significance of a genuine connection or association between two or more entities.
Example: "There is a real relation between diet and overall health that cannot be ignored."
Alternatives: "a genuine connection between" or "an actual relationship between".
Prima facie, this sentence expresses a real relation between the ancient Greeks and Zeus; and it is surely a historical fact that the ancient Greeks worshipped Zeus.
For example correspondence theories which claim that truth involves a real relation between truth-bearers and reality are often cited as paradigm cases of a substantial theory of truth.
In addition, they claimed that (1) the two notions of formal difference and real identity are logically compatible; (2) predication is a real relation between things; and (3) the ten Aristotelian categories are ten really distinct kinds of things (res in the strict sense of the term).
As a consequence, Wyclif distinguished three main non-mutually exclusive types of predication (which he conceives as a real relation holding between metaphysical entities), each more general than the preceding one (or ones).
Therefore Wyclif distinguished three main types of predication, which he conceived as a real relation that holds between metaphysical entities.
Penbygull therefore divides predication (which he conceives as a real relation which holds between metaphysical objects [De universalibus, p. 188]) into formal predication (praedicatio formalis), predication by essence (secundum essentiam), and causal predication.
Vijnanabhikshu considered the relation between the selves and Matter to be a real relation that affects Matter but leaves the selves unaffected.
He tightened the hunting scenes, and to honor his father's statement to the reader that "where I go, you go" he emphasized the mid-20th century Africa scenes and "the real relation between people ... on that continent".
There are numerous other true sentences like this, such as "Sherlock Holmes is more famous than any real detective", etc., all of which appear to involve real relations between existent objects and nonexistent ones, but whose Russellian paraphrases are false.
A logical consequence of this conviction was his strong propensity towards reification: he hypostatises the notion of being and considers equivocity, analogy, and univocity not only as semantic relations between terms and things, but also as real relations between extra-mental items (In Cat., cap. de aequivocis, ms. London, Lambeth Palace 393, fols. 69v 70r).
For example, perhaps we think icebergs cause ships to sink only because we always observe ship-sinking events occurring after iceberg-hitting events and not because there is a real causal relation that holds between icebergs and foundering ships.
