The phrase "accidental relations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing unintended connections or interactions between people or entities, often in social or relational contexts.
Example: "Their accidental relations during the conference led to unexpected collaborations."
Alternatives: "unintentional connections" or "chance encounters".
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".
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.
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".
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.
Accordingly we speculate that this region may be involved detecting non-accidental relations between multiple properties of audiovisual stimuli.
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.
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 relation between (say) the historical concept of art and the appreciative concept of art is not an accidental, unsystematic relation, like that between river banks and savings banks, but is something like the relation between Socrates' healthiness and the healthiness of Socrates' diet.
