 In the context of discussion of states of affairs as unifiers of their constituents, Armstrong anticipated Vallicella’s objection just described. His reply was to claim that even if he had to concede that it was necessary to introduce a relation or a “fundamental tie” to account for the peculiar unity present in states of affairs, the resulting regress would not be vicious. In fact, such a regress would be closer to the benign truth regress—many truths, but only one truthmaker, just like with “p”, and “it is true that p”, and “it is true that it is true that p”, etc. Treating the instantiation regress in the same way, we would have the first instantiation relation uniting the constituents of the state of affairs, but all further relations would supervene and not present any further ontological addition.