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    Supports→Bradley's original regress arguments in Appearance and Reality do not establish the unreality of relations

    If even Russell concedes that the unity problem resists relational analysis, Bradley's argument exposes a genuine explanatory gap rather than resting on unsubstantiated assumptions.

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    Bradley
    # Bradley "Bradley" most commonly refers to a person's name rather than a technical term. The most notable historical figure with this name is **F.H. Bradley** (1846-1924), a British philosopher who significantly influenced how people think about truth and reality. His key idea was that truth isn't just about individual facts matching the world, but about how all our beliefs fit together as a coherent whole—a perspective that still shapes modern philosophy today.
    Bradley's argument(as a specific philosophical claim)
    A famous logical argument showing that if you try to explain reality purely through relationships between things, you run into contradictions and can't fully account for how those relationships themselves exist.
    Relational Analysis(Philosophy of mind / philosophy of language; analysis of propositional attitude reports)
    The view that attitude-ascriptions of the form 'S Vs that p' assert relations between a subject S and a proposition.
    Russell
    # Russell Russell most commonly refers to **Bertrand Russell**, a highly influential British philosopher, logician, and social critic (1872-1970) who fundamentally changed how we think about logic, language, and knowledge. He's famous for showing that common-sense reasoning can contain hidden contradictions and for arguing that philosophy should use the precision of mathematics to solve problems. Russell also became a prominent public intellectual who wrote about everything from religion to nuclear weapons, making him one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

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    Unity problem(metaphysics and philosophy of language)
    A deep puzzle in philosophy about how different parts of something come together to form a single, unified whole—like how individual words combine into a single sentence with one meaning.
    Unsubstantiated assumptions(as a potential weakness in an argument)
    Beliefs or starting points that are taken for granted without proof or solid evidence to back them up.
    explanatory gap(Central concept in anti-physicalist arguments)
    The alleged in-principle inability to intelligibly explain how consciousness arises from physical processes

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