  This view is associated with French and Ladyman. The term ‘eliminative structural realism’ comes from Psillos (2001). It is criticised on the grounds that there cannot be relations without relata. This objection has been made by various philosophers including Cao (2003b), Dorato (1999), Psillos (2001, 2006), Busch (2003), Morganti (2004) and Chakravartty (1998, 2003) who says: “one cannot intelligibly subscribe to the reality of relations unless one is also committed to the fact that some things are related” (1998, 399). In other words, the question is, how can you have structure without individuals, or, in particular, how can we talk about a group without talking about the elements of a group? Even many of those sympathetic to the OSR of French and Ladyman have objected that they cannot make sense of the idea of relations without relata (see 2004, Esfeld and Lam 2008, Lyre 2004, and Stachel 2006).