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    It is not the case that For every concrete individual x, if x is a person, then x is a property instance.

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    • 1.Bare particular theory (Bergmann, Moreland) holds that concrete individuals possess a substratum that instantiates properties but is not itself a property instance.
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    • 2.If the concrete individual x just is a property instance, there is no ontological ground for the unity of properties in a single persistent subject.
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    • 3.Divine simplicity doctrine itself requires God to be beyond property-instantiation, so identifying persons with property instances entails God cannot be a person—a theologically unacceptable result.
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    • 1.Persons are paradigmatically subjects of experience, not abstract qualitative instances—Strawson's 'basic particulars' are irreducible to property bundles.
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    • 2.If persons were property instances, personal identity across time would collapse into qualitative similarity, contradicting Chisholm's strict criterion of haecceity-based identity.
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    • For every concrete individual x, x is a property instance of some rich property or other.
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