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    Susan C. Hale

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Earlier versions of this paper were read at seminars at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the North Carolina Philosophical Society meeting in February 1986, and at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in December 1986. I am grateful for the comments I received on those, and other less formal, occasions. My greatest debts are to Catherine Elgin, David Lewis, William Lycan, Michael Resnik, Jay Rosenberg, and George Schlesinger.

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Hale, S.C. Spacetime and the abstract/concrete distinction. Philosophical Studies 53, 85–102 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355677

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