 Bradley’s starting thesis in this chapter is that qualities need relations. He assumes that without relations qualities would just collapse into an indistinguishable blob; thus qualities, in order to exist, need relations to somehow separate them out from that blob, i.e., to act as difference-makers. In addition, qualities need relations to unify them. Thus, the demand on relations is to act as both distinction-makers and as unifiers of qualities. Qualities, on their part, also have a “a double character as both supporting and as being made by the relation” (Bradley 1893:26). Qualities are made by relations through relations’ difference-making role, but qualities also need to be related into a unified whole.