"relational situation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe the dynamic or context between individuals or groups within a relationship. Example: The couple's relational situation became strained after they began arguing over finances.
In case of FACT-G, change in PS was related to physical, functional, and emotional factors but not to the social or relational situation with the doctor.
For our purposes, however, what is most interesting about this type of relational situation has to do with complication it presents for reductivists and non-reductivists alike.
Prior to the fourteenth century, philosophers and theologians typically assume that the term 'relation' signifies whatever it is in a relational situation that does the relating though here again theological considerations force them to allow for certain exceptions.
The most difficult relational situation occurs when the radiologist detects clinically unsuspected lesions during a routine follow-up examination.
Thus, the later Harclay, as we are interpreting him, is a reductive realist he not only rejects the existence of sui generis relational properties, but maintains that in paradigmatic relational situations, substances are related by their ordinary, non-relational accidents.
And so on for the relations involved in other paradigmatic relational situations.
Thus, in Metaphysics V, he suggests that there are some relational situations in which substances are related, not by a pair of accidents, but by a single accident belonging to just one of them.
Prior to the fourteenth century, as we have seen, medievals tended to follow Aristotle in claiming that things are related by their accidents, and hence that relational situations typically involve not only pairs of substances, but pairs of monadic properties or accidents as well.
And considerations associated with the Christian doctrine of the Trinity forced them to admit that, in certain relational situations, even substances themselves can qualify as relations.[6] Prior to the fourteenth century, however, these sorts of situations were regarded as special cases, rare exceptions to a general rule.
Considerations associated with the doctrine of creation, for example, led them to accept relational situations in which two (or more) substances are related by a single property or accident.
Thus, in the Metaphysics he claims that there are relational situations (such as Simmias's thinking about Socrates) in which substances are related not in virtue of a pair of accidents, but rather in virtue of a single accident possessed by just one of the substances.
