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    Challenges→The argument from supersubstantivalism supports No Interpenetration only for material objects, not for entities of any kind

    Disjoint entities that are not material objects might have overlapping exact locations under supersubstantivalism

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    This gives us an argument for (2), the version of No Interpenetration restricted to material objects. (However, (2) conflicts with the possibility of Sanford's interpenetrating blocks, so the argument will be controversial.) But the argument does not give us an argument for No Interpenetration. For it wouldn't follow that it is impossible for there to be disjoint entities of any kind to have overlapping exact locations. Supersubstantivalism, as stated above, leaves open the possibility that ther

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