nstead you
    seem to see entities fitting into, or even coming into existence under the
    guidance of, pre-existing relations.

JA: Your view strikes as a very ancient notion of science --
    not that there's anything wrong with that, of course,
    but for the danger of a methodological inconsistency --
    but hey! we are many, we contain multitudes.  All of
    this &quot;stuff&quot; about fundamental constituents of matter
    being construed out of stuff like relational invariants,
    group-theor