If relational truth were fully grounded in intrinsic monadic accidents of each relatum, then changing only the relata's spatial positions—without altering any internal accident—could not change the truth-value of the relation, which is empirically false.

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Empirically false(as used in philosophy and science): Not true in real life when you actually test it or observe it, as opposed to being wrong just in theory.
Intrinsic(describing the kind of continuities that ground identity): Something that belongs to or is part of something by its very nature, rather than coming from outside or being relational.
Monadic accidents(types of properties that might ground facts): Properties that belong to a single thing by itself (like 'red' or 'heavy'), as opposed to relations between multiple things.
Relational truth(as a type of statement about reality): A fact about how something relates to or connects with other things—for example, 'this cup is to the left of that plate' is a relational truth.
Relatum(as used in logic and metaphysics): A thing that stands in a relationship to something else; one of the items being related in a comparison.
grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features): To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
spatial positions(physics/metaphysics): Where something is located in space; how far apart things are from each other and in what direction.
truth-value(logic and philosophy of language): Whether a statement is true or false. Two statements can have different truth-values if one is true and the other is false.

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