Chapter 50

Those things are relative which, in what they themselves are, are said to belong to other things, or they are those which in any other way whatsoever are related to another thing. Now, they are said to belong to others, as a father to a son, for the father is necessarily said to be father of a son. On the other hand, they are related to another, as great is to little or much to little. For ‘much is not said to belong to ‘little, but to be ‘much in relation to ‘little.’

One should know that, whenever a thing is considered in itself, it is not relative. When, however, it has a h