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    The premise that interpenetration requires overlapping ex... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Universals and tropes do not count as examples of interpenetration

    The premise that interpenetration requires overlapping exact locations is satisfied by co-located tropes, undermining the claim's exclusion of tropes from interpenetration cases.

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    • 1.Co-located tropes occupy identical spatiotemporal regions, satisfying the exact-location overlap required for interpenetration.
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    • 2.If interpenetration requires only occupying the same space, tropes qualify equally as well as any other concrete particular.
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    • 3.Excluding tropes from interpenetration cases requires an additional principle beyond location-overlap, making the exclusion ad hoc.
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    • 1.Interpenetration involves mutual influence or causal interaction, not mere spatial coincidence; co-location alone is insufficient.
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    • 2.Tropes are abstract particulars dependent on their substrates; they cannot interpenetrate independently as substances can.
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    • 3.Multiple tropes at one location are distinct by identity properties, not by spatial differentiation, making co-location fundamentally different from interpenetration cases.
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