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    It is not the case that Premise P4 conflates mereological overlap with locational coincidence: two entities can share an exact location while remaining wholly distinct, as Sider and Hawthorne argue for co-located material objects.

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    • 1.If two objects occupy the exact same spacetime region with no distinguishing physical property, the principle of identity of indiscernibles suggests they are identical.
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    • 2.Co-located objects must have different modal properties to remain distinct, but these differences lack clear physical or metaphysical grounding.
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    • 3.Accepting wholly coincident yet distinct objects multiplies entities without explanatory benefit and violates parsimony in ontology.
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    • 1.Location is a purely spatiotemporal property while identity conditions involve compositional/sortal facts, so they are logically independent.
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    • 2.A statue and its clay can have identical spatiotemporal boundaries yet differ in persistence conditions—clay survives flattening, statue doesn't.
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    • 3.Distinguishing location from mereology avoids the counterintuitive conclusion that all co-located objects must be identical.
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