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

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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