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    A relation is real in both relata only when the two relat... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A relation can be real in one relatum and merely a being of reason in the other relatum.

    A relation is real in both relata only when the two relata belong to a single order.

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    [3] Sometimes, however, a relation is something real in one of the relata and a mere being of reason in the other. And this happens whenever the two relata do not belong to a single order. For example, sense perception and knowledge are related to things that are sensible and intelligible. But insofar as the latter are things existing in extramental reality, they are outside the order of sensible and intelligible being. And so there is a real relation in the knowledge and sense perception in vir

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