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    Universals and tropes do not count as examples of interpe... — Carmelics
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    Universals and tropes do not count as examples of interpenetration

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    • 1.Universals are parts or constituents of entities that have exact locations, and in that sense universals are 'in their instances'
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    • 2.Universals do not themselves have exact locations
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    • 3.Without exact locations, universals cannot have overlapping exact locations
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    • 1.On immanent realist accounts (Armstrong, Loux), universals are wholly present at each instance location, not merely constituents abstracted from location.
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    • 2.Two distinct universals—redness and roundness—can be wholly present at the very same exact spatial region simultaneously.
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    • 3.If two entities are each wholly present at one and the same exact location, they satisfy any reasonable criterion for interpenetration.
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    • 1.Trope bundle theorists (Campbell, Williams) identify particulars with clusters of tropes, where each trope is a located abstract particular occupying a precise region.
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    • 2.Multiple distinct tropes—a particular redness-trope and a particular mass-trope—are standardly assigned the exact same spatial location within one bundle.
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    • 3.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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    Simplified somewhat, the response holds that (i) universals are parts or constituents of entities that have exact locations, and in that sense they are ‘in their instances’, but (ii) universals do no themselves have exact locations and hence do not have overlapping exact locations. Given (ii), the universals or tropes in question no longer count as examples of interpenetration. Call this the Burying Strategy, since it ‘buries’ universals and/or tropes in located entities, rather than treating th
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