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T R U T H H Q

for those relations we added for someones? Are we not immediately conscious of owning our bodies, and having agency in the world? In fact, isn’t this more obvious to us than the way the world outside of us is structured? We could, of course, go on to consider what makes someone uniquely a someone – in other words, what constitutes their essence? And

again, we could deploy our mystical notion of ‘form’, or quintessence here and argue, for instance, for an immaterial soul. But, I’d

suggest, there is no need for such an argument. Again, it is our relations that supply our uniqueness and thus our uniqueness is adequate as a definition for soul – without invoking supernatural additions. My soul is my body, my agency and my way of being in the word. It’s enough to be someone. It’s enough to be

unique. It’s enough to be considered ensouled. So, in a world that is ‘the many’ as well as ‘The One’, perhaps it is foolish to look for some ultimate substrate. Perhaps essence based on relations is all that we should expect.

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