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It would be a good thing to have at our disposal a general theory of location that is neutral with respect to (i.e. that does not rule out or entail) (i) the view that some objects have more than one exact location, (ii) the view that some objects are located without having an exact location, and (iii) the view that some objects are “spanners”—where a spanner is an object exactly located at a region that has proper parts but which has no proper part exactly located at a proper part of the region. As far as I know, no theory of location that can be found in the literature has this feature. I put forward a new theory that does—or so I argue. The theory takes as its sole locational primitive the notion of being entirely located at.
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Versions of this paper have been presented in October 2020 at an eidos meeting (University of Geneva), in March 2021 at a session of the Lingnan/HKU/NUS Seminar Series and in April 2021 at a session of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Philosophy Department Seminar. I am grateful to the participants of these events for very helpful feedback, especially to Claudio Calosi, Damiano Costa, Antony Eagle, Olivier Massin, Giovanni Merlo, David Schroeren and Lisa Vogt, as well as to two referees for this journal. This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Consolidator project BSCGI0_157792.
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Correia, F. A General Theory of Location Based on the Notion of Entire Location. J Philos Logic 51, 555–582 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-021-09641-5
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