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Substantivalists believe that there are regions of space or spacetime. Many substantivalists also believe that there are entities (people, tables, social groups, electrons, fields, holes, events, tropes, universals, …) that are located at regions. These philosophers face questions about the relationship between entities and the regions they are located at. Are located entities identical to their locations? Are they entirely separate from their locations, i.e., they share no parts with them?…

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