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    Supports→The argument from supersubstantivalism supports No Interpenetration only for material objects, not for entities of any kind

    Supersubstantivalism, as defended by Sider, identifies material objects with spacetime regions via exact location, exploiting the unique persistence conditions of matter.

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    • 1.Material objects persist through time by continuously occupying successive spacetime regions, explaining their identity conditions.
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    • 2.Identifying objects with spacetime regions avoids multiply realizing the same object in different possible worlds.
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    • 3.Exact location provides a principled criterion for individuating material objects without appealing to primitive parthood.
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    • 1.Objects seem to retain identity through mereological change, but spacetime regions are rigid; this threatens their identification.
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    • 2.The view conflates the spatiotemporal location of an object with the object itself, committing a category error.
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    • 3.Exact location is indeterminate at quantum scales, making object-identity conditions metaphysically unstable under this theory.
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