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    It is not the case that Tropes and immanent universals are metaphysically untenable

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    • 1.The mereo-locational principle No Interpenetration holds that distinct entities cannot occupy the same spatiotemporal location
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    • 2.Tropes and immanent universals, if spatiotemporally located, would violate No Interpenetration
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    • 3.Mereo-locational principles like No Interpenetration are at least as well justified as the posits they are used to reject
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Any entity wholly present at location L1 and wholly present at distinct location L2 generates a contradiction: the entity both has and lacks the intrinsic properties of each region.
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    • 2.Immanent universals require exact co-location with distinct particulars, but Leibniz's Law entails that co-located entities sharing all properties are numerically identical, collapsing universals into particulars.
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    • 3.Trope bundle theory requires co-located tropes to constitute a single object, yet distinct tropes occupy distinct locations by their own intrinsic nature, making coherent bundling formally impossible.
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    • 1.Immanent universals must be wholly present at multiple distinct locations simultaneously, violating the Lewisian principle that particulars are never wholly present in multiple places.
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    • 2.Tropes individuated solely by spatiotemporal location collapse into bare particulars, eliminating the qualitative character they were posited to explain, as Armstrong argues against the trope theorist.
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