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    Challenges→NXS (the thesis that no simple entity is exactly located at a complex region) follows from Supersubstantivalism+.

    Hudson (2005) and others argue that material simples can occupy extended regions, making it metaphysically coherent for a mereologically simple object to be exactly located at a complex region.

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    Key Terms

    Extended regions(in metaphysics and physics)
    Areas or spaces that take up room and have size; in contrast, a point has no size at all.
    Hudson (2005)(as a scholarly citation)
    A reference to a philosophical work or argument published by a philosopher named Hudson in the year 2005; in academic writing, philosophers cite each other's published ideas this way.
    Material simples(in metaphysics)
    Objects that are made of matter (material) and cannot be broken down into smaller parts (simples)—think of them as the ultimate building blocks of physical reality.
    Mereologically simple(in metaphysics)
    Something that has no parts; it's a whole object that cannot be divided into smaller pieces.
    Metaphysically coherent

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    exactly located(The region that exactly matches the object's spatial extent)
    The precise spatial region at which an object is situated, with no remainder

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