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To deny this is to say that there is no such relation,
which we express by enclosing the whole in a cut. But
every fact whatever consists in the existence of a
relation. To say that there is no relation of one kind
is to say that there is a relation of another kind. All
things are related to one another in every combination.
The brevity of this course forbids my going into the general
theory. But if a relation not in itself absurd, and
therefore having all the being that belongs to a relation in itself
fails to exist in any case, it is simply because
existence by its very nature must fall short of
possibility. It must be because the things fail to
exist that would bring the relation into existence in the
particular case. If there is no one-to-one relation of whatever
A there is to a separate existent B, it is simply because