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    It is not the case that Descartes distinguishes 'internal place' (matter itself) from 'external place' (surface of surrounding body), implying spatial relations are not fully reducible to particular material substances (Pr II 15).

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    • 1.For Descartes, matter just is extension; spatial relations are configurations of extension itself, so distinction doesn't establish irreducibility.
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    • 2.Internal and external place may be conceptually distinct while both ultimately reducible to the geometric extension of material bodies.
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    • 3.Descartes's commitment to substance dualism suggests he would resist non-reducibility claims that admit abstract or non-physical spatial entities.
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    • 1.Place involves relational properties (position relative to surroundings) that cannot be identified with any single substance's intrinsic properties.
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    • 2.Descartes's distinction between internal and external place explains how the same matter can occupy different places while remaining numerically identical.
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    • 3.Spatial relations require reference to multiple bodies and their boundaries, not reducible to properties of isolated substances alone.
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