For Humboldt it is language instead that serves as the civilizing force leading the individual to self-consciousness and societal interaction and thus involves a positive relation to the other.
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.
Unlike the propositional contents of general thoughts that involve only abstract universals such as properties and/or relations, the propositional content of a singular thought may involve in addition a relation to a concrete individual or particular.
In the second sense, analogy involved a relation between two things, of which one is primary and the other secondary.
Some powers, though properties of agents naturally expressed by 'can', do not intuitively involve any relation to action.
This "grounding property" of the experience motivates a "relational" view of it, according to which having the experience puts the subject in a relation to "items involving properties which, if they are properties of anything at all, are properties of extended objects" (2007, p. 524).
The number of cases involving ART is too small for a relation to be indicated.
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).
