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    It is not the case that Property regimes are constitutively social: no coherent concept of ownership exists prior to the rules and institutions that define it.

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    • 1.Animals exhibit possessive behavior and resource control without social institutions, suggesting ownership has natural roots prior to society.
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    • 2.Social rules about property must track or constrain something real—exclusive control itself—that exists independent of rules recognizing it.
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    • 3.If property is purely constitutive, institutions could coherently define contradictions (simultaneous ownership by all and none), but they cannot.
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    • 1.Ownership rights vary radically across cultures and legal systems, suggesting they depend on social construction rather than natural fact.
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    • 2.Property disputes require reference to laws and institutions to resolve; no pre-social concept determines rightful ownership independently.
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    • 3.Even basic ownership concepts like 'alienability' or 'inheritance' only make sense within specific social frameworks and rule systems.
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