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F.H. Bradley may well have been the last major philosopher to acknowledge that relations, in their own right, pose an authentic metaphysical problem. Near the beginning of Appearance and Reality (p. 21) he gives this problem a memorably pessimistic formulation:
Relation presupposes quality, and quality relation. Each can be something neither together with, nor apart from, the other; and the vicious circle in which they turn is not the truth about reality.
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Hunter, G. (1985). Monadic Relations. In: Okruhlik, K., Brown, J.R. (eds) The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5490-8_5
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