The phrase "accidental relation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a connection or association that occurs by chance rather than by intention or design.
Example: "The accidental relation between the two events led researchers to explore unexpected correlations in their data."
Alternatives: "chance connection" or "unintentional link".
Sometimes the "pickup" - the first words that are heard when they return to the air, has an accidental relation to the newsflash.
Of course, secular reason holds that human languages are purely conventional, but Benjamin would not countenance the idea that words are arbitrary: "It is no longer conceivable, as the bourgeois view of language maintains, that the word has an accidental relation to its object".
Rather, the soul is in an accidental relation to a particular body, occasioned by the generation of that body and its need for a central organizing and sustaining principle.
Before Gerhard Falkstein arrived in the rather brilliant surgeon's classroom one stormy afternoon carrying Beaufort von Frankenstein's last will and testament, Dr. Frankenstein considered himself nothing more than "an accidental relation to the family coo-coo".
He does not mean some accidental relation like being to the left or to the right of something a relation that can change without changing the nature of the being enjoying the relation.
But Merwin and others who declare the impossibility of translation go ahead and cheerfully prove themselves wrong by producing works that bear more than an accidental relation to their originals and that have in many cases extraordinary literary power.
The eternal truths derive their reality from the "Simple Essences of things" and these are the eternal divine ideas, which stand in Suarezian accidental relations to one another (71).
Plato is surely right to think that there is some interesting and non-accidental relation between the structural features and values of society and the psychological features and values of persons, but there is much controversy about whether this relation really is strong enough to sustain all of the claims that Socrates makes for it in the Republic.
Accordingly we speculate that this region may be involved detecting non-accidental relations between multiple properties of audiovisual stimuli.
Of course, asking hundreds of reporters and editors to not reply to even an accidental public relations "spamming" is like posting a "No food fights" sign in a junior-high cafeteria.
The process of generalization ascends from natural history via physics towards metaphysics, whereas accidental correlations and relations are eliminated by the method of exclusion.
