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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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