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Reality as characterized by the arrangement of facts into relations and qualities is appearance, not true reality.

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1.The arrangement of given facts into relations and qualities is theoretically unintelligible.
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2.That which is theoretically unintelligible cannot constitute true reality.
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1.Relations and qualities are not merely imposed by mind but are discovered features of an independent world, as argued by Russell in 'The Problems of Philosophy'.
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2.If relational structure were mere appearance, the predictive success of relational scientific theories would be inexplicable, undermining the claim's coherence.
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1.Bradley's regress against relations presupposes that relations must themselves be related to their relata, but this conflates internal and external relations without justification.
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2.Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Armstrong's truthmaker theory both demonstrate that atomic facts standing in logical or natural relations can be primitively intelligible without requiring a further grounding in a non-relational Absolute.
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The arrangement of given facts into relations and qualities may be necessary in practice, but it is theoretically unintelligible. The reality, so characterized, is not true reality, but is appearance. (1893: 25 [1897: 21])

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