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    Challenges→By analogy, simply positing relational tropes does not provide an effective theoretical response to Bradley's argument

    Keith Campbell and D.M. Armstrong argue that tropes possess intrinsic adicity, meaning a dyadic trope is constitutively connecting and requires no further truthmaker for its relating.

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    • 1.Relations between particulars require no external glue; dyadic tropes internally constitute their relata's connection.
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    • 2.Intrinsic adicity explains why relations hold necessarily between their relata without invoking further metaphysical entities.
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    • 3.This avoids infinite regress: we need no truthmaker for the relation between a relation and its relata.
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    • 1.If dyadic tropes are intrinsically connecting, what explains their directedness toward specific relata rather than others?
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    • 2.Intrinsic properties cannot account for relational structure; a trope's internal nature seems insufficient for extrinsic connections.
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    • 3.The claim conflates the ontological independence of relations with their explanatory self-sufficiency regarding what they relate.
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    Key Terms

    Constitutively connecting(describes how dyadic tropes relate their two parts)
    Joining things together as a fundamental part of what that thing is, rather than as an added feature.
    D.M. Armstrong(named as one of the main philosophers arguing for this theory)
    An influential Australian philosopher known for developing theories about abstract objects and properties in the world.
    Dyadic trope(used as the specific example of how tropes work)
    A trope that naturally connects or relates two things together, like the relationship of 'being next to' or 'causing'.
    Intrinsic adicity(the key property Campbell and Armstrong claim tropes have)
    The built-in ability of something to connect multiple things together on its own, without needing anything extra; 'adicity' refers to how many things something can relate to.
    Keith Campbell(one of the developers of trope theory)
    An Australian philosopher who further developed and refined trope theory to explain how objects and their properties actually work.
    tropes(Cited as examples of non-material entities whose interpenetration supersubstantivalism does not rule out)
    Particular property instances that can be exactly located at regions without being identical to those regions
    truthmaker(Armstrong's truthmaker argument)
    Something in the world which makes a given truth the case and serves as its ontological ground

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