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    Spatio-temporal relations are the privileged means by which objects not directly perceived are related to demonstratively identified objects.

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    • 1.Sally can identify objects she has not perceived by relating them to demonstratively identified objects via unique relations those objects bear to the identified stock.
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    • 2.Strawson argues, following Kant, that spatio-temporal relations are the privileged set of relations enabling identification of particulars.
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    • 1.Causal relations, not spatio-temporal ones, are the fundamental basis by which we identify and refer to unperceived objects.
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    • 2.Kripke and Devitt demonstrate that reference chains are sustained by causal-historical links independent of any spatio-temporal mapping.
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    • 3.A causal theory of reference can account for identification of abstract-like entities and theoretical posits where spatio-temporal location is indeterminate or undefined.
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    • 1.Functional and inferential roles within a conceptual scheme can uniquely identify objects without privileging spatio-temporal relations.
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    • 2.Quine's ontological relativity shows that object identification is relative to a background theory, not anchored to a privileged spatio-temporal framework.
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    So far we have argued that demonstrative identification is not reducible to descriptive identification. But Strawson makes the stronger claim that, in the reduplication universe, descriptive identification depends on demonstrative identification. To get this stronger claim consider an object that Sally has never perceived but can intuitively think about — say, Bill's mother. Strawson claims that considering this case proves false the claim “that where the particular to be identified cannot be di
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