It is dependent, as any predication in the category of relation presupposes corresponding predications in non-relational categories, but it nevertheless remains ineliminable: any analysis of a relation needs to mention alongside the more fundamental categorical items some relational entity as well.
'Double'half'lf'greater',r', fall under the category of relation; 'in a the market place'in'in the Lyceum', under that of place; 'yesterday'lastast year', under that of time.
Through the function of the category of relation Kepler passes over to the active function of the mind (or soul).
So that, if we seek the place of a moral obligation among the categories, it belongs to the category of relation" (EAP 3.3.5, 173).
Real relatives are aggregates compounded by a substance and a relation, so that they fall under the category of relation only indirectly (per reductionem) because of their accidental form.
The category of Relation has a single maxim, "Be relevant", while the final category of Manner has a short "super" maxim "Be perspicuous" which has various submaxims (1989, 27).
Here we encounter the third and final function of symbolic meaning, the significative function (Bedeutungsfunktion), which is exhibited most clearly, according to Cassirer, in the "pure category of relation".
This theory has been studied most thoroughly with regard to Auriol's ideas concerning the category of relation (cf. e.g., Henninger 1989, pp. 150 73; Brower 2014, section 3.1; Friedman 2013, pp. 550 56).
As Donald Sherburne explains, "It is customary to compare an actual occasion with a Leibnizian monad, with the caveat that whereas a monad is windowless, an actual occasion is 'all window.' It is as though one were to take Aristotle's system of categories and ask what would result if the category of substance were displaced from its preeminence by the category of relation …" (Sherburne 1995, 852).
