4. Relation is a something or nothing, which keepeth an exceeding room in all our Sciences. But when anatomized, it is considerable, 1. As in extrinsic Objects. 2. As in the mind of man considering them: 1. In the Object there is, 1. Quid absolutum, that is, the subject, the terminus, the fundamentum, cum ratione fundandi. 2, The formal Relation. The first is quid reale, as is confessed. The second is nothing besides the first. It is nothing but rerum comparabilitas: And that comparability is nothing, besides the quid absolutum, or thing it self. When an Egg is new laid at the Antipodes, an Egg here is newly related to it ut simile: But nothing is added to this Egg; But only now the mind of man can compare it with that at the Antipodes, and consider, that in quantity, figure, colour, &c. they are like: which likeness as in ovo is nothing besides the same quantity, figure, colour, &c. themselves. But by those Realities, it is capable of being compared, and the mind can raise an universal notion of both, as compared. 2. But this comparing Act of the Understanding is quid reale. So that Ockam in his Quodlibets hath well proved in many questions, that Relation is nothing besides the quid absolutum in re & in meant humana. And though his Gregor. Armin. at large dispute that non-entia may be related, yet it is on this supposition, that non-entia may be imagined, and be the matter of a thought or conceptus, and as such they are entia rationis realia; that is, that conceptus is quid reale. But besides that, the Relatio non-entis is nothing but nonens, and a meer nihil.
4. Relation is a something or nothing, which keepeth an exceeding room in all our Sciences. But when anatomized, it is considerable, 1. As in extrinsick Objects. 2. As in the mind of man considering them: 1. In the Object there is, 1. Quid absolutum, that is, the subject, the terminus, the fundamentum, cum ratione fundandi. 2, The formal Relation. The first is quid reale, as is confessed. The second is nothing besides the first. It is nothing but rerum comparabilitas: And that comparability is nothing, besides the quid absolutum, or thing it self. When an Egg is new laid at the Antipodes, an Egg here is newly related to it ut simile: But nothing is added to this Egg; But only now the mind of man can compare it with that at the Antipodes, and consider, that in quantity, figure, colour, &c. they are like: which likeness as in ovo is nothing besides the same quantity, figure, colour, &c. themselves. But by those Realities, it is capable of being compared, and the mind can raise an universal notion of both, as compared. 2. But this comparing Act of the Understanding is quid reale. So that Ockam in his Quodlibets hath well proved in many questions, that Relation is nothing besides the quid absolutum in re & in mente humana. And though his Gregor. Armin. at large dispute that non-entia may be related, yet it is on this supposition, that non-entia may be imagined, and be the matter of a thought or conceptus, and as such they are entia rationis realia; that is, that conceptus is quid reale. But besides that, the Relatio non-entis is nothing but nonens, and a meer nihil.
