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    It is not the case that The boundary between self and world is philosophically contested: Parfit's reductionism and Merleau-Ponty's embodiment theory both destabilize the discrete self that ownership presupposes.

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    • 1.Ownership rights function pragmatically regardless of metaphysical self-boundaries; blurred ontology doesn't necessitate dissolved legal/moral entitlements.
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    • 2.Parfit's reductionism and Merleau-Ponty's embodiment concern different problems (personal identity vs. phenomenology) and don't jointly destabilize ownership.
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    • 3.Even if selves are relationally constituted, particular persons still have privileged causal and epistemic access justifying differential ownership claims.
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    • 1.Parfit shows personal identity reduces to psychological continuity, not an indivisible soul, undermining metaphysical grounds for exclusive ownership.
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    • 2.Merleau-Ponty demonstrates the body is not a discrete object but a lived perspective constitutively entangled with its environment and others.
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    • 3.If the self is relationally constituted rather than atomically bounded, ownership claims based on discrete self-identity lose foundational justification.
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