One of the most fundamental ideas possible, was stated by Plato In Theaetetus.
"No thing is self existent."
Which rates right up there with "Relation to self is inadmissible."
Yet many people, in all levels of education, never notice with they violate that simple and demonstrable principle. It is one way to state that all things are defined by a binary relationship.
So, when you read authors who use the phrase, "there exist" as if anyone can possible predicate existence or non-existence, do you automatically respond with, there is another illiterate talking out of the ass?