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    It is not the case that An internalB relation is fully determined by the intrinsic natures of its relata, meaning it adds no additional unifying structure beyond those natures.

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    • 1.Spatial distance between objects cannot be derived from intrinsic natures alone; it requires external structural facts about positions.
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    • 2.Identity conditions for relations often appeal to structural features (like symmetry or transitivity) not contained in individual relata.
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    • 3.Mathematical relations like 'greater than' seem to impose genuine constraints that transcend the numbers themselves as independent entities.
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    • 1.If relations added structure beyond relata natures, they would be entities requiring further explanation, creating infinite regress.
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    • 2.Intrinsic properties fully determine all counterfactual facts about an object; relational facts should similarly reduce to intrinsic facts.
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    • 3.We observe no empirical evidence of relations as primitive unifiers separate from the properties of related things themselves.
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