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    Challenges→Events conceived as facts or fact-like particulars are fine-grained entities that cannot be freely re-described or re-identified under different conceptualizations.

    Kim's property-exemplification account, though fine-grained, still permits re-identification when the same constituent triple recurs across different linguistic framings.

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    • 1.Fine-grained individuation requires tracking constituent properties precisely; Kim's triple-structure provides exactly this systematic tracking mechanism.
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    • 2.Linguistic variation (different framings) shouldn't determine identity; sameness of underlying properties should, making re-identification across framings justified.
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    • 3.Without re-identification criteria across contexts, property exemplification becomes tied to utterance, making identity arbitrary rather than substantive.
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    • 1.Constituent triples may be identical while contexts differ; contextual information might constitute part of what makes properties genuinely distinct exemplifications.
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    • 2.The account risks collapsing distinctions between genuine recurrence and mere notational equivalence; sameness of triple notation doesn't guarantee metaphysical sameness.
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    • 3.Different linguistic framings may encode structurally different relational contexts that affect property identity; the account may inadequately capture this.
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