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    Exact location does not entail mereological correspondenc... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If an entity x is exactly located at a complex region y, then x is complex.

    Exact location does not entail mereological correspondence between the located entity and the region's internal structure, as Hudson argues in 'The Metaphysics of Hyperspace'.

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    • 1.A sphere can exactly occupy a cubic region without its rounded surface matching the cube's angular boundaries.
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    • 2.Mereological structure concerns part-whole relations, while location concerns spatial position—these are ontologically distinct categories.
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    • 3.Hudson's hyperspace framework allows regions with internal structures independent of occupants' intrinsic mereologies.
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    • 1.If exact location means occupying every point of a region, the occupant must structurally match that region's dimensional properties.
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    • 2.Distinguishing location from mereology creates mysterious unexplained correlations between spatially colocated but structurally disparate entities.
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    • 3.Hyperspace arguments rely on unintuitive abstract machinery rather than explaining why location decouples from composition in ordinary cases.
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