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    If an object is exactly located at two regions, those regions mereologically coincide

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    • 1.If an object o is exactly located at region r, then o is weakly located at all and only the entities that overlap r (premise 17)
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    • 2.Object o is exactly located at region ra
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    • 3.Object o is exactly located at region rb
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    • 1.An object can be exactly located at two distinct regions if it persists through time by enduring, occupying different regions at different times.
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    • 2.Temporally distinct exact locations need not mereologically coincide, since overlap relations are time-indexed and vary across moments.
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    • 3.Therefore, mereological coincidence of all exact locations holds only under a tenseless, four-dimensionalist ontology, not universally.
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    • 1.Weak location facts can be grounded in causal or dispositional relations, not purely in mereological overlap of regions (Parsons 2007).
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    • 2.If weak location is not definitionally equivalent to overlapping the exact location region, premises 4 and 5 beg the question against rival location theories.
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    • 3.The inference to mereological coincidence thus inherits a substantive theoretical commitment that cannot be treated as a neutral logical consequence.
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    To see that the inference from (17) to (18) is valid, suppose that object o is exactly located at regions ra and rb. Since o is exactly located at ra, o is (by (17)) weakly located at all and only the entities that overlap ra. Likewise, since o is exactly located at rb, o is weakly located at all and only the entities that overlap rb. So ra overlaps a given entity if and only if o is weakly located at that entity; and rb overlaps a given entity if and only if o is weakly located at that entity.
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