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    Relational properties can be primitive and irreducible: '... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Representing two objects as bearing a spatial relation to one another presupposes representing those objects as being in space.

    Relational properties can be primitive and irreducible: 'A is 5 meters from B' need not entail A or B being located within a background space.

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    • 1.Quantum entanglement shows distant particles correlate without spatial mediation, suggesting relations need not reduce to spatial properties.
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    • 2.Background space itself requires explanation; positing it as primitive merely postpones the question of what grounds spatial structure.
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    • 3.Relations like 'cousin of' or 'earlier than' seem fundamental to reality without requiring objects to inhere in a container space.
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    • 1.Distance measurements presuppose metric structure; claiming primitiveness without explaining what makes 5m≠6m leaves the concept incomplete.
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    • 2.If 'A is 5m from B' doesn't anchor to space, it becomes unclear how distance grounds observable spatial behavior and physical interaction.
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    • 3.Relations require relata with internal structure; denying any spatial embedding shifts burden to explaining what properties A and B possess instead.
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