_Bradley_should_show_wherein_and_
_how._] But, if they contribute anything, they
_must surely be affected internally. [_Why_so,_
_if_they_contribute_only_their_surface?__In_such_
_relations_as_'on,'_'a_foot_away,'_'between,'_'next,'_
_etc.,_only_surfaces_are_in_question._] . . . If the
terms contribute anything whatever, then the
terms are affected [_inwardly_altered?_] by the
arrangement. . . . That for working purposes
we treat, and do well to treat, some relations
as external merely I do not deny, and that of
course is not the question at issue here. That
question is . . . whether in the end and in
principle a mere external relation -_i.e.,_a_relation_
_which_can_change_without_forcing_its_terms_
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_to_change_their_nature_simultaneously_] is possible
and forced on us by the facts."(1)
Mr. Bradley next reverts to the antinomies
of space, which, according to him, prove it to
be unreal, although it appears as so prolific a
medium of external relations; and he then concludes
that "Irrationality and externality can
not be the last truth about things. Somewhere
there must be a reason why this and that appear
together. And this reason and reality
must reside in the whole from which terms and
relations are abstractions, a whole in which
their internal connection must lie, and out of
which from the background appear those fresh
results which never could have come from
the premises.
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