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So, the positing of stuff is one potential solution to the original problem of
colocation in the case of the statue and the bronze. However, even if this solution is
adequately defended (for example, by defending the stuff-theorist’s view of when
colocation is problematic), it gives rise to problems of exactly the kind it was trying to
solve. In spite of having a whole extra ontological category to work with, we’ve made no
progress on solving the puzzle of colocated entities. 27
of Location”, p. 2-3), the water pervasively occupies each region exactly occupied by any atom that
partially composes a H2O molecule, but it does not entirely or exactly occupy any such region.
27 I am grateful to Andrew Egan, Hud Hudson, William Kilborn, Ned Markosian, Kris McDaniel, Daniel
Nolan, Michael Rea, Jonathan Schaffer , Ted Sider and an anonymous referee for helpful comments on
earlier versions of this paper.