“In determining whether two perceived objects or situations ‘are the same’, we have been trained to ignore the fact that this is completely impossible, since most of what a thing or situation is or may be is determined not by class or set, membership — but by intrinsic being in and as a form of spacetime, and no two such forms can be “replicas”, because in order for this to be true they would have had to have occupied the same routes and space in both temporality and relations — in precisely the same way. This is formally impossible, and thus, likeness is not actually similarity, except in a narrow scope of purposes and imposed perspectives.”

— instances are unique, first