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    It is not the case that Dances are better construed as action-structures than as eternal types

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    • 1.A dance work like Swan Lake maintains strict identity conditions across centuries and radically different performances, implying type-hood.
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    • 2.Wolterstorff's theory of works as norm-kinds shows that types can be historically instituted without being Platonic eternal abstracta.
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    • 3.If types can be culturally embedded and historically situated, the action-structure account loses its ontological advantage over type theory.
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    • 1.Goodman's allographic/autographic distinction implies dance notation systems could in principle generate multiple correct instances, supporting type ontology.
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    • 2.If any performance compliant with a score counts as a genuine instance of the work, identity is constituted by compliance not by action-token embodiment.
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    • 1.Dance is embodied in a physical, intentional event
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    • 2.Embodiment in a physical, intentional event makes action-structures a more appropriate ontological category than eternal types
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