 The relation between an object and its awareness cannot be distinct from the nature of its relata. If it were distinct, then, on pain of regress, one would have to accept that the relation between the first relation and its relata is in the end identical to its own loci [i.e., its relata]. If this is right, one would have to accept that the awareness of this second relation arises without any awareness of a distinction between the relata and the relevant relation; for a relation that is identical to its own loci oversteps the limitations of other relations. Analogously, the relation between an object and its awareness obtains even in the absence of any distinction between its relata, and the awareness of that relation also arises without any awareness of the relevant distinction. Where is the inconsistency? (KKh 56–57)