There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.
Nonetheless, because they deny that the term 'relation' refers to anything in extramental reality, and hence that strictly speaking relations are concepts or beings of reason, there is a sense in which their view qualifies as anti-realist.
Generally speaking, relations of toleration are hierarchically ordered according to the first conception, quite unstable according to the conception of "coexistence," while the "esteem conception" is the most demanding in terms of the kind of mutual appreciation between the tolerating parties.
Roughly speaking, relation (12) suggests that in networks where the nodes are located far apart (e.g., cellular type of wireless networks), the accuracy of self-interference cancellation is more stringent as compared to that in networks where the nodes are located in close vicinity (e.g., a wireless network setup in an office room).
They spoke about relations between men and women, and said that I would find a good husband, even if I would be one of several of his wives.
Dewey notes that formalist art critic Roger Fry spoke of relations of lines and colors coming to be full of passionate meaning within the artist.
Health care providers interviewed for this study spoke in relation to their experiences of caring for inner-city women in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
On the literal plane they speak to relations between humans and nature.
This helps to explain why, unlike contemporary philosophers, who speak of relations as holding between two or more things, Aristotle prefers to speak of them as inhering in one thing and somehow pointing toward (pros) another.
In the early modern period, philosophers habitually speak of relations as the "products of comparison" or "results of thought", while at the same time allowing for things to be related apart from the activity of any mind.
In one exchange, a Cherokee official spoke of cultivating "relations with the power brokers".
