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    If x is exactly located at y, then y is exactly located at itself and hence is a region

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    • 1.Dependent Reflexivity (DR): if x is exactly located at y, then y is exactly located at itself
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    • 2.Conditional Reflexivity: regions are exactly located at themselves
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    • 1.Exact location is an asymmetric relation between objects and regions, not a reflexive relation that regions bear to themselves.
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    • 2.Treating regions as self-located conflates the locating relatum (region) with the located relatum (object), undermining the distinctness required for the relation.
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    • 3.Graham Priest's and others' work on non-standard mereotopology allows regions to serve purely as relata without themselves instantiating locative properties.
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    • 1.On a Leibnizian relationist view, regions are not independently existing entities but are abstractions from relations among material objects.
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    • 2.If regions lack independent existence, they cannot bear the reflexive location relation that Dependent Reflexivity (DR) requires, blocking the inference to regionhood.
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    Together with Conditional Reflexivity, (DR) entails that that if x is exactly located at y, then y is exactly located at itself and hence is a region. But the (DR) + Conditional Reflexivity package also allows for cases in which an entity r counts as a region even though nothing but r is exactly located at r.
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