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    Challenges→NXS (the thesis that no simple entity is exactly located at a complex region) follows from Supersubstantivalism+.

    Supersubstantivalism+ requires exact location, but a simple entity can be exactly located at a region without being numerically identical to it if location is a primitive external relation.

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    Numerically identical(as used to describe whether two agents are the exact same person)
    Being literally the same thing, not just similar or alike—like how the person you are today is numerically identical to the person you were yesterday (one and the same individual).
    Primitive relation(as used in metaphysics)
    A fundamental connection or relationship between things that cannot be explained by breaking it down into simpler parts—it just exists as a basic feature of reality.
    Simple entity(as used in metaphysics and ontology)
    Something that has no smaller physical parts—it's a basic building block that can't be broken down further.
    exact location(Used to define interpenetration and overlap between entities)
    The precise spatial region occupied by an entity
    external relation

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    (used by most trope theorists to characterize compresence)
    A relation that does not hold merely in virtue of the existence of its relata, and is therefore a real addition to the entities it relates.
    region(Derived from Conditional Reflexivity within the theory)
    An entity that is exactly located at itself; being self-located under exact location is the criterion for being a region in this framework
    supersubstantivalism(Used to argue for the restricted version of No Interpenetration)
    The view under which material objects are identified with or essentially tied to spatial regions, such that disjoint material objects cannot share exact locations

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