Full Idea
Resemblance Nominalists cannot explain the resemblance between particulars in terms of their properties, because they explain particulars' properties in terms of their resemblances.
Gist of Idea
Resemblance Nominalists say that resemblance explains properties (not the other way round)
Source
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Resemblance Nominalism and Russell's Regress [2001], p.397), quoted by Douglas Edwards - Properties 5.5.1
Book Reference
Edwards,Douglas: 'Properties' [Polity 2014], p.105
A Reaction
While resemblance does seem to be a primitive fact of experience, and it points us towards the properties, to say that resemblance explains properties is obviously (as so often...) getting things the wrong way round. Properties ARE resemblances??