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    The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right'... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right' is an individual essence of Paul.

    The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right' is parasitic on a contingent spatial relation that could have failed to obtain.

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    • 1.Rigidified properties designate objects by their actual spatiotemporal location, making them dependent on contingent facts.
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    • 2.A property is parasitic if its identity requires reference to another property that could have been different.
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    • 3.David could have been positioned differently, so any property defined relative to his actual position is contingent.
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    • 1.Rigidified properties fix their reference through actual facts, but this doesn't make them parasitic—only historically grounded.
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    • 2.A property can be non-parasitic even if its instantiation depends on contingent relations; parasitism requires conceptual dependence.
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    • 3.Being-on-David's-right is a complete relational property, not derived from or secondary to simpler properties.
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