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>To ask the question “what is it that two or more discriminable beings or things or situations might share?” is really to ask “at what levels of analysis might two or more things be considered the same? – and at what levels different?” It is the particulars of our individuality – our specific time and place – that differentiate us from one another. What unites us is the fact of those particulars, however – the fact that we each have a specific time and place – and the implications of that fact for the nature of our existence. Our lives are open to possibility, but remain eternally bounded by disease, death, and subjugation to social structure. As mutable, limited, social beings, we are all engaged in a massive, cooperative and competitive endeavor.