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    Challenges→InternalB relations cannot serve as the relating relation between A and B, because they generate an infinite process of division rather than genuine relatedness.

    Bradley's Regress 2 shows that internalB relations dissolve into an infinite division rather than unifying their relata.

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    In this regress, Bradley is employing the phrases “being nothing to the qualities” and “being something to the qualities,” but he doesn’t explain what he means by these phrases. If, however, Bradley is to be consistent with his previous claims, relations that are “nothing to the qualities” have to be his internalB relations which he dismissed with Regress 2, and relations that are “something to the qualities” have to be his “independent” relations which he dismissed with Regress 1. We should thu

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