 One possible interpretation (see Perovic 2014: 381) of why Bradley does not wish to take distinctness of qualities as ontologically primitive is that he might already be presupposing a primitive which is contrary to it—a monistic undifferentiated whole. From such monistic perspective, it would then seem that differentiation of qualities would need an explanation and an ontological ground, whereas the lack of differentiation would appear to be an ontological default, requiring no explanation at all. However, although this interpretation would help us understand better why Bradley might have assumed that relations need to act as difference-makers for qualities, it is certainly not terribly charitable to Bradley; that is, it would assume that Bradley had already question-beggingly presupposed monism as the default ontological position in his arguments against relations.