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The GK fridge magnet suggests an ontology wherein relations are not secondary to things. This might seem counter-intuitive on the basis that you need things for relations, suggesting things are primary after all. So, for instance, before you have a love relationship, you need two separate people.

It is true you do seem to need things to 'bear' relations, and so as a condition for the existence of relations. But this does not mean the thing is primary and that relations are secondary. A single thing will always have an identity relation to itself. Even if we imagine it is all that exists, we still then imagine a relation.

As concerns empirical evidence for the view that relations are not secondary, as we ramp up the giga-electron volts and go deeper/smaller into matter using particle colliders, we don't simply find a single fundamental particle as a basic thing. Instead certain elementary bosons (e.g. gluons) act as force carriers giving rise to forces between other thing-particles. It seems the explanations of sub-atomic particle physics have come to refer to relations as much as to things.

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