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    Supports→All relations, not just independent ones, are incapable of relating

    Any relation R that 'relates' a and b must itself stand in a further relating-relation to a and b, generating an infinite regress regardless of R's ontological status.

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    • 1.Relations are genuine entities that must connect relata; connection itself requires a mediating factor between distinct things.
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    • 2.Any mediating factor between a, b, and R itself needs mediation, creating a regress that cannot terminate without special pleading.
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    • 3.Denying the regress requires positing brute facts or primitive relations, which abandons explanatory completeness.
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    • 1.Relations can be fundamentally non-relational: a property of ordered pairs (a,b) requires no further 'relating' to obtain.
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    • 2.The regress assumes relating-relations differ in kind from base relations; treating all uniformly dissolves the problem.
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    • 3.Not all conceptual distinctions (relation vs. its relata) generate metaphysical demands for additional entities bridging them.
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