 Two objections are frequently brought against non-relational ties: (1) they are found to be more obscure than full-blooded relations; and (2) they are accused of not being able to stop the regress any more than ordinary relations do. Philosophers that find relations to be suspicious entities, tend to find non-relational ties even more suspicious and obscure. They ask: How are non-relational ties different from relations? If they are meant to relate or “tie” their relata, are they not sufficiently like relations? And if there was a problem with Bradley’s regress of relations in the first place, don’t we have the same problem with non-relational ties? (Lewis (2002) has made similar remarks against non-relational ties in the context of discussing the problem of termporary intrinsics and the adverbialist reply to the problem.) Vallicella (2000: 241) has attacked non-relational ties by arguing that even if the nexus manages to save Bergmann from the regress, the unity problem remains. The problem, as Vallicella sees it, then becomes that nexus is sufficiently like a universal that it remains unclear what it is that unites a, Fness, and nexus into a state of affairs as opposed to having a mere sum of a+Fness+nexus.