_Radical_empiricism,_
as I understand it, _does_full_justice_to_
_conjunctive_relations_, without, however, treating
them as rationalism always tends to treat
them, as being true in some supernal way, as if
the unity of things and their variety belonged
to different orders of truth and vitality altogether.
II. CONJUNCTIVE RELATIONS
Relations are of different degrees of intimacy.
Merely to be 'with' one another in a
universe of discourse is the most external relation
that terms can have, and seems to involve
nothing whatever as to farther consequences.
Simultaneity and time-interval come next, and
then space-adjacency and distance. After
them, similarity and difference, carrying the
possibility of many inferences. Then relations
of activity, tying terms into series involving
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change, tendency, resistance, and the causal
order generally. Finally, the relation experienced
between terms that form states of mind,
and are immediately conscious of continuing
each other. The organization of the Self as a
system of memories, purposes, strivings, fulfilments
or disappointments, is incidental to
this most intimate of all relations, the terms
of which seem in many cases actually to compenetrate
and suffuse each other's being.
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