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relation" to denote such a relation that no relate
stands in that relation to two different correlates nor
any two relates to the same correlate; like the relation
of husband to wife in a monogamous country, or
better of father to eldest child, then it is assumed that
there is no one-to-one relation in which every B
stands to an A. Then the question is whether there is
necessarily any one to one relation in which
every A stands to a B.

Since there is no one-to-one relation in
which whatever B there may be stands to an A, it must be logically
impossible that there should be any such relation. But
since the form relation in itself is not absurd, and since
in point of fact every B does stand in such a
relation to some member of a gath, for every B stands in the