Regarding "correlations without correlata": this feels to me like we are starting to hit on properties on our mechanism for describing/representing and confusin

Regarding "correlations without correlata": this feels to me like we are starting to hit on properties on our mechanism for describing/representing and confusing it with what we're trying to describe/represent. Rather than saying there's "nothing really there," couldn't it just be a property of human conceptual structure that it expresses abstract relations about abstract symbols, but there are never any 'things' that are related?