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    It is not the case that Exact locations are exactly located only at themselves, meaning chains of exact location are always of length one

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    • 1.Functionality—the thesis that each entity has at most one exact location—is rejected by endurantist accounts of persistence through time, where a single object occupies numerically distinct regions at different times.
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    • 2.If Functionality fails for persisting objects, then the inference that y's only exact location is itself collapses, since the formal machinery underwriting the length-one chain result is not universally valid.
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    • 3.Hudson and Sider's work on extended simples and multilocation demonstrates that Functionality is a substantive metaphysical commitment, not a logical truth, and cannot serve as a premise in a general proof.
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    • 1.Conditional Reflexivity presupposes that regions are self-locating entities, but regions qua abstract or geometric objects need not instantiate the location relation at all.
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    • 2.If regions are not the kinds of things that can be located, then 'y is exactly located at y' is a category error, not a logical consequence, leaving chains of location unanchored.
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    • 1.If x is exactly located at y, then by Conditional Reflexivity, y is exactly located at y
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    • 2.If y is exactly located at y and also exactly located at z, then by Functionality, y equals z
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    • 3.Therefore, the only thing y can be exactly located at is itself
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