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    It is not the case that If immaterial minds can possess general characteristics like rationality or virtue without spatial situatedness, then spatiality cannot be a prerequisite for form-exemplification in general.

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    • 1.The claim conflates instantiation-without-location with instantiation-without-substrate; immaterial minds might require a non-spatial substrate, not zero substrate.
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    • 2.Even if immaterial minds exist, they might exemplify only a restricted class of properties (mental ones), leaving open whether spatiality enables physical properties.
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    • 3.The argument's conclusion overgeneralizes: showing one exception to spatial requirement doesn't prove spatiality is never a prerequisite for form-exemplification.
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    • 1.Abstract objects like numbers exemplify properties (primality, magnitude) without spatial location, showing form-exemplification doesn't require spatiality.
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    • 2.If immaterial minds can instantiate rationality, the property itself must be instantiable independently of spatial substrate or location constraints.
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    • 3.Spatial properties are contingent features of physical objects, not metaphysically necessary conditions for any property-instantiation whatsoever.
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