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    Challenges→Exact locations are exactly located only at themselves, meaning chains of exact location are always of length one

    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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    Endurantism(Contrasted with views that posit temporal parts)
    The view that things are wholly present whenever they exist
    Functionality(Formal constraint on the exact location relation)
    The principle that if y is exactly located at z and y is exactly located at z*, then z equals z*; exact location is functional (many-to-one at most)
    Persistence through time(as used in metaphysics)
    The question of how something can remain the same thing even as time passes and it changes—what makes you 'you' next year?
    entity(as used in metaphysics)
    Any individual thing or being that exists—could be a person, object, or anything else that is one distinct thing.
    numerically distinct(Used to characterize the parts of the Form that must exist separately in each participant)

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    Being distinct in the sense of being different individual tokens, not merely different in kind or quality.
    region(Derived from Conditional Reflexivity within the theory)
    An entity that is exactly located at itself; being self-located under exact location is the criterion for being a region in this framework

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