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    It is not the case that An entity r can count as a region even though nothing but r is exactly located at r

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    • 1.Regions, qua spatial entities, are individuated solely by the objects or fields that occupy them, following Leibniz's relational conception of space.
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    • 2.An unoccupied region r lacks the relational structure required to distinguish it from any other candidate region, rendering self-location vacuous.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Dependent Reflexivity entails that r's being located at r is grounded in r's existence, but existence alone cannot generate genuine locative facts without a distinction between locator and located.
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    • 2.Collapsing the locator and located into a single entity r violates the asymmetric, cross-categorial structure that location relations require, as Casati and Varzi argue in 'Parts and Places'.
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    Reasons Against

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    • The combination of Dependent Reflexivity (DR) and Conditional Reflexivity permits cases where a region is self-located without any distinct entity being located at it
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