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    Supports→Tropes and immanent universals are metaphysically untenable

    Immanent universals require exact co-location with distinct particulars, but Leibniz's Law entails that co-located entities sharing all properties are numerically identical, collapsing universals into particulars.

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    Co-location(as used in metaphysics)
    When two or more distinct things occupy the exact same space at the same time.
    Collapsing(as used in logical argumentation)
    In philosophy, this means showing that two things we thought were different are actually the same or equally valid.
    Immanent universals(Contrasted with transcendent or Platonic universals; targeted by the No Interpenetration argument)
    Universals that are wholly present at each of their instances and thus spatiotemporally located
    Leibniz's Law(Applied here to show that relative identity generates contradictions when sortals are treated as univocal.)
    The logical principle that if a = b, then whatever is truly predicated of a is truly predicated of b (the indiscernibility of identicals).
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    (as used to describe whether two agents are the exact same person)
    Being literally the same thing, not just similar or alike—like how the person you are today is numerically identical to the person you were yesterday (one and the same individual).
    particulars(Buddhist epistemology (pramāṇa theory))
    The actual objects of the world that are directly accessible only through perception and are ineffable — they cannot be captured or referred to by words

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