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    It is not the case that There are no plural entities.

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    • 1.Wholes possess emergent causal powers that their constituent parts individually lack, as argued by proponents of mereological universalism.
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    • 2.An entity with novel causal powers irreducible to its parts constitutes a genuinely distinct plural entity, not merely a convenient fiction.
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    • 3.Therefore, plural entities exist as causally efficacious wholes, independent of whether their constituent singulars are themselves ultimately real.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika tradition posits that composite wholes (avayavin) are ontologically distinct substances from their parts, with samavāya (inherence) as a real relation.
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    • 2.If inherence is a genuine ontological category binding parts into a whole, then the whole has independent existence not reducible to its components, refuting the interdependence premise in Argument 1.
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    • 1.There are no singular entities.
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    • 2.Being singular and being plural are essentially interdependent — a plural entity is simply a singular entity assembled.
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    • 3.If there are no singular entities, there can be no plural entities, since plural entities presuppose the existence of singulars.
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