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    It is not the case that Property relations should be established in ways that reflect facts about human agency and embodiment, not merely social convention.

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    • 1.Property regimes are constitutively social: no coherent concept of ownership exists prior to the rules and institutions that define it.
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    • 2.Hegel's own account of embodied agency ultimately grounds property rights in mutual recognition by a community of free persons, not bare biological facts.
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    • 3.Facts about human embodiment underdetermine property arrangements, since they are compatible with collective, communal, and individual ownership schemes alike.
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    • 1.Locke's labor-mixing argument, the paradigm case of grounding property in agency, relies on a prior conventional assumption that labor can generate entitlements.
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    • 2.Hume demonstrated that property conventions are self-reinforcing social artifacts whose stability and legitimacy derive from mutual expectation, not pre-social agency facts.
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    • 1.Even if property is a product of social rules, facts about the human condition and embodied agency can provide philosophical premises for normative arguments about property.
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    • 2.Persons have an intimate pre-legal relation to their own bodies that bears philosophical analysis.
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