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    Extended material simples are possible. — Carmelics
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    Extended material simples are possible.

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    • 1.There are no necessary connections between the accidental, intrinsic properties of distinct contingently existing non-overlapping entities related by a fundamental relation (the No Necessary Connections principle).
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    • 2.The Humean premise holds that there are no necessary connections between the accidental, intrinsic properties of regions of space and the accidental, intrinsic properties of material objects.
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    • 3.Therefore, there are no necessary connections between the mereological structure of a material object and the mereological structure of the region that material object occupies.
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    • 1.A material simple, by definition, has no proper parts, yet extension requires distinct spatial sub-regions that ground numerically distinct intrinsic properties.
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    • 2.If a region R is extended, any object exactly occupying R must have parts corresponding to R's sub-regions, given that spatial location is the basis for material individuation.
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    • 3.Therefore, an entity occupying an extended region without having proper parts violates the principle that spatial distinctness grounds material distinctness, making extended simples incoherent rather than merely impossible.
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    • 1.The No Necessary Connections principle applies to distinct entities, but the relationship between an object and the region it exactly occupies is not a relation between distinct entities—it is a constitutive tie that grounds the object's spatial properties.
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    • 2.Because exact occupation is a constitutive rather than a contingent external relation, the mereological structure of an object and the structure of its occupied region cannot vary independently, undermining premise P3 of the Humean argument.
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    (NNC): Let F and G be accidental, intrinsic properties; let R be a fundamental relation; let x and y be contingently existing non-overlapping entities. Then it is not the case that, necessarily, Rxy only if (Fx if and only if Gy)…if we accept the Humean premise that there are no necessary connections between the accidental, intrinsic properties of regions of space and the accidental, intrinsic properties of material objects, then we should hold that there are no necessary connections between the
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