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    It is not the case that A limit or place makes a body 'one' in two distinct ways: by unifying the body's parts with each other, and by distinguishing the body from other bodies.

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    • 1.A body's unity is constituted by the continuity of its matter, not by any external limit or place (Aristotle, Physics IV.1–5).
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    • 2.If place were what unifies a body's parts, then relocating a body would dissolve and reconstitute its unity, which is absurd.
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    • 1.Leibniz's principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles entails that bodies are individuated by intrinsic qualitative properties, not by relational spatial position.
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    • 2.A limit or place is a relational, extrinsic feature and therefore cannot be the ground of a body's intrinsic oneness or its distinction from other bodies.
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    • 1.Everything that is in the place is the body, and everything not in the place is not the body.
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    • 2.The limit or place thereby integrates the parts inside it into a single thing and simultaneously differentiates that thing from what lies outside.
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