 So far Russell has only shown that the unity of a state of affairs A’s standing in R to B does not consist in A’s standing in R to B. In addition, he has imposed a constraint on answers to the unity-question. He says that it is not credible that there is a unifying element that is not a constituent of the state of affairs. Russell himself couldn’t find an answer to the unity-question that met his constraint. Hence, he tried to eliminate states of affairs.