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    It is not the case that The intuition that object-phases are unnatural merely reflects ordinary language bias, not a deep metaphysical distinction.

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    • 1.Identity conditions across time feel non-arbitrary; we genuinely track continuants, not merely linguistic conventions.
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    • 2.Physicists describe processes using objects as primary relata; spacetime formalism doesn't prove phases are equally fundamental.
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    • 3.If object-phases are equally natural, composition rules for them should be determinate—yet this creates new puzzles, not clarity.
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    • 1.Natural language conflates temporal stages with objects due to practical communicative needs, not metaphysical insight.
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    • 2.Physics describes reality via four-dimensional spacetime where object-phases are as fundamental as objects themselves.
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    • 3.Our intuition against object-phases mirrors historical resistance to heliocentrism—familiarity breeds the illusion of naturalness.
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