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    It is not the case that Without a kind-relative reason to privilege original temporal position, the claim that A and A' differ merely because A' comes later is unsupported by the sortal itself.

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    • 1.Spatiotemporal location is a fundamental individuation principle that sortals presuppose, not something they must independently justify.
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    • 2.Two qualitatively identical objects at different times are genuinely distinct objects; this distinction is grounded in their spatiotemporal coordinates.
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    • 3.The sortal's silence on temporal priority doesn't undermine temporal difference—sortals specify essential properties, not exhaustive identity conditions.
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    • 1.Sortals define identity conditions based on intrinsic properties and kinds, not temporal location or historical accident.
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    • 2.If temporal priority alone grounded difference, numerically distinct objects of the same kind would require independent metaphysical justification.
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    • 3.The sortal itself supplies only kind-specific criteria; temporal precedence is extrinsic to what makes something that kind of thing.
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