 More often, however, the puzzles are taken to motivate constitutional pluralism, the thesis that ordinary objects are typically, if not always, distinct from the aggregates of matter that constitute them. (‘Typically’ because, in rare cases in which the ordinary object and the aggregate come into existence at the same time and cease to exist at the same time, some pluralists will take the ordinary object to be identical to the aggregate.) Pluralists reject MC2: clay statues are not identical to the pieces of clay that constitute them. Pluralists may deny that having the same parts at a given time suffices for identity, or they may instead deny that the statue and the piece of clay have all of the same  parts.[23] 