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    It is not the case that Event types can be individuated extensionally by their instances without themselves possessing internal mereological or syntactic structure.

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    • 1.Different event types can share identical extensions yet differ structurally (e.g., 'the rise of mercury' vs 'the rise of temperature').
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    • 2.Explaining why certain actions count as instances of an event type requires appeal to internal structural properties or relations.
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    • 3.Extensional identity alone cannot ground modal facts about which events could have constituted a type differently.
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    • 1.Event types like 'sunrise' are successfully individuated by their concrete instances without needing to posit hidden internal structure.
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    • 2.Extensional criteria (what counts as an instance) fully determine event type identity across possible worlds and contexts.
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    • 3.Positing internal mereological structure multiplies entities unnecessarily when extensional identity conditions suffice.
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