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    It is not the case that Chains of exact location are always short (length one)

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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