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    It is not the case that Therefore, events resist fine-grained individuation even when the descriptions corresponding to them are logically non-equivalent.

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    • 1.If events resist fine-grained individuation, identity conditions for events become indeterminate, undermining their status as genuine particulars.
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    • 2.Non-equivalent descriptions express genuinely different conceptual content; metaphysics should respect these distinctions rather than collapse them.
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    • 3.The claim relies on an unexplained notion of 'resistance' that avoids rather than answers the real question of what makes events identical.
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    • 1.Event identity depends on spatiotemporal and causal properties, not merely on how we describe them linguistically.
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    • 2.Multiple logically distinct descriptions can track the same underlying event by picking out identical causal-physical particulars.
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    • 3.Fine-grained individuation conflates conceptual distinctions with metaphysical ones, treating linguistic precision as ontologically decisive.
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