It would be a good thing to have at our disposal a general theory of location that is neutral with respect to (i.e. that does not rule out or entail) (i) the view that some objects have more than one exact location, (ii) the view that some objects are located without having an exact location, and (iii) the view that some objects are “spanners”—where a spanner is an object exactly located at a region that has proper parts but which has no proper part exactly located at a proper part of the region. As far as I know, no theory of location that can be found in the literature has this feature. I put forward a new theory that does—or so I argue. The theory takes as its sole locational primitive the notion of being entirely located at.

拥有一种关于位置的一般理论是一件好事，该理论对于（即不排除或必然）（i）某些物体具有多个确切位置的观点是中立的，（ii）一些对象在没有确切位置的情况下被定位的观点，以及 (iii) 一些对象是“扳手”的观点——其中扳手是一个对象准确地位于具有适当部分但没有适当部分准确定位的区域在该区域的适当部分。据我所知，文献中的任何位置理论都没有这个特点。我提出了一个新理论——至少我是这么认为的。该理论将完全位于的概念作为其唯一的定位原语。