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    Challenges→Bradley's regress argument is not an argument against relations themselves, but against the assumption that relations need to be related to what they relate

    Bradley's regress argument generates an infinite regress only if one assumes that relations must themselves be related to their relata

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    More of the same can also be found in Alexander (1920 [1966], vol. 1, 249, 256) and Grossmann (1992: 55–56). Though they are less harsh than Broad and Blanshard in their assessment of Bradley’s regress arguments, they are unambiguous in their diagnosis of the problem as one involving the wrong conception of relations. According to Grossmann, for instance, the correct conclusion to draw from Bradley’s regress argument is that “it is really an argument not against relations, but against the assump

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