 Another novel relation has been proposed by Meinertsen (2008). He has argued for a self-relating relation to do the uniting of particulars and universals into states of affairs. According to this proposal, what makes R related to the pair (a, b) is a unifying self-relating relation U* which unites itself to R, a, and b. Thus, a state of affairs R (a, b) turns out to be identical to the state of affairs U* (U*, R, a, b) and a state of affairs Fa is just a short for U*(U*, F, a) (cf. Meinertsen 2008: 12). The self-relating relation U* occurs twice in the states of affairs it unites: the first time, outside the brackets, U* occurs in its “active” relating role; the second time, inside the brackets, U* occurs in its “passive” role as one of the constituents being related (cf. Meinertsen 2008: 15). 