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    It is not the case that Bradley's argument for idealism is fallacious

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    • 1.Bradley's idealism rests on the converse claim that thought entails being
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    • 2.Moore and Russell's convictions about the nature of knowledge rebut this claim
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    • 1.Bradley's argument requires that relations are either internal to their terms or generate vicious infinite regresses, but neither horn is coherent.
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    • 2.If relations are internal, they collapse into the monism Bradley wants to prove rather than serving as premises; if external, they require further relating relations ad infinitum.
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    • 3.A valid argument cannot assume its conclusion as a structural feature of its own premises, which Bradley's regress argument demonstrably does.
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    • 1.Russell's theory of external relations, developed in 'The Principles of Mathematics' (1903), provides a coherent alternative to Bradley's internalism that Bradley never successfully refuted.
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    • 2.Bradley's only response to external relations was to insist they must be grounded in the natures of their terms, which begs the question against the externalist position.
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    • 3.An argument that can only rebut its chief rival by presupposing the truth of its own conclusion commits the formal fallacy of petitio principii.
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