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Contents Preface   ix Introduction xv Glossary xxix One Individual Form and Relevant Distinctions 1 Two Reasons for Affirming Individual Forms 26 Three Types of Essential Structures 56 Four Types of Being 81 Five Principles of Individuality 104 Six Individual Form and Mereology 127 Seven Challenges for Individual Forms 153 Eight Alternative Accounts of Individual Form 185 Nine An Alternative Account Revisited 210 Ten Conclusion 234 Selected Bibliography 239 Index 253 ...

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