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    Supports→Material bodies (in a broad sense) are the basic items of reference.

    Material bodies do form a structured spatio-temporal framework and are not similarly dependent.

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    How should we think of these descriptive relations? Strawson claims in chapter 1 that these descriptive relations are fundamentally spatio-temporal. That is, my ability to think of James I rests on thinking of him as the person ascending the throne in 1603, the present time being 2018. Ultimately I fix on him via his place in a spatio-temporal framework which is centred on my currently perceived environment. Strawson further points out that since we need to update this relational framework over

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