 For Bradley, as we saw above, only internal relations stand a chance of being  “real”[1]  and, subsequently, of doing the double duty just described. At the same time, Bradley’s internal relations (from now on, internalB relations) are meant to be grounded in the proper parts of qualities (see more below on this peculiar understanding of relations). But if different proper parts of a quality are to be truly different, they must be made different by some additional internal relations. The latter, in their turn, must be grounded in further different proper parts of parts of qualities. This “process of fission”, as Bradley calls it, continues ad infinitum, thus generating the second infinite regress of relations in these pages, and providing Bradley with the alleged “proof” that qualities standing in relations are unintelligible.