Lex listened to Geeves for a long while, and came up with his own descriptions of Foundational and Relational laws. Foundational laws were loosely similar to the laws of science he studied back on Earth - very, very loosely.
On Earth he studied the nature of all objects and their behaviors under different circumstances. The Foundational laws were basically just the rules that dictated that nature and behavior.
Relational laws, on the other hand, were more metaphysical, and could not really be studied. Or, well, maybe quantum physics studied those things, but since Lex had never studied it back on Earth, he wasn't familiar with what it covered. But the point was, based on how Lex understood it, Relational laws were more conceptual in nature.
