If redness depended on haecceity rather than substance-qua-bearer, two qualitatively identical substances would support different red tokens—contradicting empirical indiscernibility.
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substance(Spinoza's metaphysics; criteria include (i) necessity and (ii) self-subsistence)
The fundamental existent that is wholly necessary and self-subsistent, not depending on anything else for its existence
token(Philosophy of language; type-token distinction)
An actual physical thing located at a specific place in spacetime; a concrete instantiation such as a pile of ink on a page, a sound wave, or a collection of pixels on a computer screen