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    Challenges→There cannot be two individuals that are exactly alike.

    If spatial location is itself an individuating primitive independent of qualitative properties, the demand for a further sufficient reason why one is here and not there is ill-formed.

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    Ill-formed(describes why the comparison between the two worldviews fails without a proper framework)
    Logically broken or meaningless; like trying to answer a question that doesn't actually make sense.
    individuating primitive(as used in metaphysics to explain what makes objects different from each other)
    A basic, fundamental feature that makes something its own distinct thing, rather than being defined by other features.
    qualitative properties(Used here to clarify that 'occupying someone's qualitative role' involves matching all qualitative features, not just intrinsic ones)
    Properties that include both intrinsic properties of an individual and extrinsic properties (such as relational or world-involving properties like being such that there are seven continents), which together suffice to fix the qualitative character of the world
    spatial location(as used in metaphysics)
    The physical position or place where something exists in physical space—like saying a chair is in the living room.

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    sufficient reason(Used by Leibniz to distinguish genuine explanatory grounds from mere descriptions.)
    A reason adequate to determine why a thing is as it is and not otherwise.

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