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    It is not the case that On Campbell's trope theory, spacetime points are logical constructs from bundles of co-present tropes, not containers that tropes are literally 'parts of'.

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    • 1.Logical constructs lack causal powers, yet spacetime appears to causally constrain which tropes can co-locate.
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    • 2.If spacetime points are merely constructed, we lose explanatory resources for why physical laws exhibit the symmetries they do.
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    • 1.Tropes are the fundamental particulars; spacetime points have no independent existence apart from the properties located there.
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    • 2.This avoids the problem of explaining how abstract containers can literally contain concrete particular qualities.
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    • 3.Co-location of tropes is a primitive relation that grounds spacetime structure without positing substantival space.
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