 One sort of rejectionist reply to Bradleyean arguments can be found in Perovic (2014). Perovic (2014) argues that Bradley’s original regress arguments in AR rest on unsubstantiated assumptions and thus cannot be considered as successful reductio arguments against relations. For example, the first regress takes for granted that as long as unifying relations are conceived as “independent” from their relata, they cannot relate. The second regress assumes that unifying of qualities cannot be achieved with “internal” relations either; for the latter are understood as being grounded in proper parts of qualities, which leads, according to Bradley, to an infinite regress. She points out that it is not clear why Bradley understands internal relations as grounded in proper parts of qualities that they relate, nor is it clear why Bradley believes that relations, if they are to have any standing, ought to fill a dual role of unifying their relata as well as providing the ground of their distinctness. Perovic (2014) concludes that without further support, Bradley’s original arguments against relations as unifiers of qualities do not establish the unreality of relations; an appeal to external relations as unifiers of their relata is still a perfectly acceptable option for both realists and trope theorists.