 In this famous passage, Bradley does not make it sufficiently clear what exactly generates the infinite regress. He also shifts between the linguistic worry about “something being said” of relation C and relata A and B, and the more substantial ontological worry about the unity of qualities A, B, and the relation C conceived as “independent” from relata. Despite this, it seems clear that for Bradley it is the assumed independence of the relation C that generates the problem. An independent relation is, according to him, incapable of relating A and B, and no amount of further independent relations can do the job either, thus generating the regress that has the following structure.