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It is not the case that A genuine absence of distance requires non-relational separation, not a limiting case of a relational magnitude that presupposes the relata.
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All measurable separation presupposes spatial or relational frameworks; 'non-relational separation' may be conceptually incoherent.
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Zero-distance limits of relational magnitude adequately explain coincidence and identity without invoking mysterious non-relational properties.
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Parsimony favors relational accounts: we need no additional ontology beyond distance relations to explain all actual separation phenomena.
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Relational distance logically requires two distinct entities; zero distance conceptually collapses this distinction into identity.
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Non-relational separation explains how entities can be fundamentally distinct without measuring distance between them.
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Identity and spatial proximity are categorically different—one is metaphysical, the other is geometric; conflating them obscures both.
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