 In this regress, Bradley is employing the phrases “being nothing to the qualities” and “being something to the qualities,” but he doesn’t explain what he means by these phrases. If, however, Bradley is to be consistent with his previous claims, relations that are “nothing to the qualities” have to be his internalB relations which he dismissed with Regress 2, and relations that are “something to the qualities” have to be his “independent” relations which he dismissed with Regress 1. We should thus read premise (2) in Regress 3 as follows: if R is an internalB relation, A and B will end up not just not related, but will instead end up in the infinite process of division, as seen in Regress 2. If, on the other hand, R is something to A and B, as in premise (3) in Regress 3, it itself has to be something—that is, it is, in Bradley’s terminology a non-internal, “independent” relation. And “independent” relations, as we have seen in Regress 1, cannot relate and no amount of further independent relations can relate either.