The phrase "a special relation to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a unique or significant connection between two entities or concepts.
Example: "The artist has a special relation to nature, which is evident in her paintings."
Alternatives: "a unique connection to" or "a significant bond with".
These writers have a special relation to the "outside contained on the inside" feature of academic creative-writing programs, and many of the most celebrated have been accused of inauthenticity.
An effective (or de facto) authority may not be justified, but it does stand in a special relation to justified (de jure) authority.
Interaction at a particular level involves only the presence of a trait at that level with a special relation to genic or genotypic expected success that is not reducible to interactions at a lower level.
(G II 252/AG 177) One of the points Leibniz is making here is that in an animal there is a dominant monad that bears a special relation to all the monads subordinate to it that make the "organic machine" of that animal.
One possibility is that the more "central" affects involving our emotional conditions may bear a special relation to the person or the self, whereas more "peripheral" affects, like the pleasantness of eating a cracker, might pertain to the subpersonal aspects of our psychologies.
Or, looking to the clever explanations that follow, where perhaps Forms of Fire and Heat, Cold and Snow or Three and Odd are linked, one might ponder whether Forms are indeed utterly simple or monoeidetic, in contrast to an account of Forms in which they may bear a special relation to their essence Three is what it is to be three and a different relation to another property, e.g. oddness.
Mill's view is that one has as a matter of fact this special relation to one's own body; it largely determines one's identity as a person.
In other religions, such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, an initiate to a special holy (often monastic) community within the larger religious community is designated by a change in name and wearing apparel, denoting his special relation to the sacred.
In quantity and quality such punishment bore no special relation to the character or gravity of the offense.
The perpetuity of the Jewish people, according to Krochmal, is the result of their special relation to the Universal Spirit, who is the God of Israel.
