The Hypostatic Existence of Relationships

In all relative things there be a habituation which is independent of the subjects in which it is found. We shall have to grant, however, that this habituation subsists in certain subjects as long as the subjects remain such as they were and even if they were separate. While in other subjects this habituation is born only when they are brought together. This has led people to believe that in all these relations there is nothing real. But what wholly derives its existence from this habit called relation? By hypostatic existence I hear mean not the existence which is proper to subjects, but theexistence which is called relative. As for instance, the double causes the correlative existence of the half.