One might either (i) reject a relational analysis altogether or (ii) accept a relational analysis, but hold that it involves a relation to something other than what the mental state is about.
On this relational view of touch, all immediate tactual perception involves a relation holding between our body and objects in contact with it.
According to Henry, truth involves a relation to an "exemplar".
In contrast the power to speak French will be an ability, since it involves a relation to action.
While these cases "involve" a relation of co-reference between the denoting concepts, or between one denoting concept and the term denoted, this relation is not part of what is stated: the one relation stated remains "pure identity".
Partly influenced by Wittgenstein, Russell now held the view that whenever a proposition apparently involves a relation or quality occurring as logical subject, it is capable of being analyzed into a form in which the relation or quality occurs predicatively.
He suggests that we should go back to the standard Neo-Davidsonian framework and treat the so-called low applicatives as involving a relation of an individual to an event.
These condition-specific responses also accord with the view that anxious attachment involves a "relation-specific anxiety" that is distinct from more general forms of anxiety or neuroticism [29].
These studies illustrated that surgical trauma enhanced locoregional tumour recurrence and that this phenomenon involved a dose response relation, that is, severe trauma was associated with a higher locoregional tumour recurrence rate compared to mild trauma (Busch et al, 1993; Bouvy et al, 1997; van den Tol et al, 1998; van Rossen et al, 1999, 2000).
But the label is usually applied much more broadly to any view explicitly embracing the idea that truth consists in a relation to reality, i.e., that truth is a relational property involving a characteristic relation (to be specified) to some portion of reality (to be specified).
