The phrase "a relation to a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing connections or associations between two entities or concepts.
Example: "The study explores a relation to a variety of factors influencing consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "a connection to a" or "an association with a".
Having a vertebral column, for instance, seems to be relational in that it consists of a relation to a vertebral column, but it is also an intrinsic property.
So intentionalism contrasts with the sense-datum theory: since it is not of the essence of experience or its character that it is relational, it is not of its essence that it is a relation to a non-ordinary sense-datum.
There will be a vegetable garden, but more important will be establishing a relation to a whole network of suppliers.
No great director has built a career with as overt and obsessive a relation to a cinematic forebear as Brian De Palma has in regard to Alfred Hitchcock.
Both these fables, responses to feelings of entrapment, are about a relation to a movie star so intense that the boundaries between the screen and the moviegoer collapse.
A relation to a patron god was defined by revelations starting with Abraham (who never refers to the God of his father) and continuing with a succession of "founders" of his worship.
According to Henry, truth involves a relation to an "exemplar".
(A) simply falls out of what hallucinations are supposed to be, and two principles: first, that awareness of an object is a relation to an object, and second, that relations entail the existence of their relata.
Russell examines the view that to judge that p is to stand in a relation to an objective which may or may not obtain or exist in 1910 and rejects the view (Russell 1976).
That is, the risks of too cosy a relation to governments that provide an umbilical cord of sought after funding.
For Derrida, melancholy implies an ethical stance, a relation to loss in the mode of vigilance and constant re-attunement.
