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    Chains of exact location are always short (length one) — Carmelics
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    Chains of exact location are always short (length one)

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    • 1.Functionality entails that if a region is exactly located at two things, those two things are identical
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    • 2.Conditional Reflexivity entails that any region that is exactly located at by something is itself exactly located at that region
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    • 3.Combining both principles, no region can be exactly located at a distinct second region
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    • 1.On extended simples views (Parsons, Simons), a single object can be exactly located at a region while that region is itself located at a larger region via parthood-grounded location.
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    • 2.If location chains can be extended through mereological embedding, Conditional Reflexivity does not terminate chains at length one but merely anchors each link reflexively.
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    • 3.Therefore the combination of Functionality and Conditional Reflexivity fails to preclude chains longer than one when location is partly grounded in mereological relations between regions.
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    • 1.Relativistic spacetime allows a single enduring object to be exactly located at distinct temporal slices of a region under four-dimensionalist worm theories (Sider, Hawley).
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    • 2.If exact location is indexed to temporal parameters, Functionality holds only within a time-slice, permitting chains of exact location across distinct but overlapping regions without violating the identity condition.
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    This says that exact locations are exactly located only at themselves (hence that ‘chains’ of exact location are always ‘short’). To see why this follows from Functionality and Conditional Reflexivity, suppose that x is exactly located at y. Then by Conditional Reflexivity, y is exactly located at y. If y is also exactly located at z, then by Functionality, y=z.
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