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    It is not the case that If a property is necessitated by a substance's essential microstructure, that property partially constitutes what it is to be that substance.

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    • 1.Necessitation differs from constitution: a property can be necessary without being part of what makes something what it is.
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    • 2.Substances have identity conditions independent of their microstructure (e.g., the same substance could have different microphysical composition).
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    • 3.Many microstructure-necessitated properties are accidental rather than essential to a substance's nature.
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    • 1.Essential properties are those without which a substance cannot exist or be what it is fundamentally.
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    • 2.Microstructure causally determines all higher-order properties a substance manifests in the actual world.
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    • 3.If X necessitates Y and Y is constitutive of identity, then X partially constitutes that identity.
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