 A similar result can be obtained for proposal (c) by means of a regress argument. According to proposal (c), distinctness consists in a difference in properties. If the distinctness of the pot from the cloth is a matter of their having different sets of properties, then we must ask what it is in virtue of which the relevant properties are recognized as distinct. If it’s because the properties have different sets of higher-order properties, then we will be launched on a regress; for we can raise the same question with respect to these properties. In order to stop the regress, if we say that some of the distinguishing higher-order properties needn’t themselves have distinguishing higher-order properties, then we would end up with the result that the entities lower down in the hierarchy cannot be really be recognized as distinct. So, the pot and the cloth will be presented in awareness as non-distinct or identical.