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    Supports→Bradley's regress shows that nothing ever gets connected to anything else, making instantiation incoherent.

    Trope bundle theorists and nominalists who dissolve Bradley's regress by eliminating relations still face compresence or co-instantiation relations that regenerate the same regress.

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    Bradley's regress(General problem in ontology; Lowe's formal-relation strategy is intended to block it)
    An infinite regress that arises when a relation between constituents of a state of affairs is itself treated as a further constituent requiring yet another relation to bind it, and so on without end
    Co-instantiation(as used in metaphysics)
    Multiple different things existing or occurring together at the same time in the same entity.
    Regenerate(as used in biology and developmental processes)
    The ability of a living thing to regrow or repair damaged or lost body parts, like how a starfish can regrow an arm.
    Relations
    A relation is a way of describing how two or more things are connected or related to each other. For example, "is the parent of," "is taller than," or "is friends with" are all relations that show how people or objects link together. In everyday terms, it's simply a pattern or connection that shows how one thing depends on, compares to, or associates with another.

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    Trope bundle theory(Ontology / metaphysics of properties and objects)
    The view that for an object to exist, its tropes must be mutually compresent — i.e., an object is a bundle of compresent tropes
    compresence(Russell's bundle theory)
    A special relation between properties that binds co-instantiated universals into a substance
    nominalism(Metaphysics; opposed to realism about universals)
    The view that abstract entities such as properties or universals do not exist, and that predicative facts must be explained without appealing to such entities.

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