temporal parts
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftemporalandpart
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temporal
adjective
uk/ˈtem.pər.əl/us/ˈtem.pɚ.əl/
formal
relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than ...
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part
noun
uk/pɑːt/us/pɑːrt/
some but not all of ...
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(Definition oftemporalandpartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For atemporalpartcan exist without a temporal whole.
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Persons are not bundles of the temporal parts of a person, tied together as the strings in a rope, but indivisible.
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The only way an object could lack temporal parts is to either be a temporal, but instantaneous, entity, or to be a non-temporal entity.
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There is no need to introduce other relations, which hold between temporal parts and connect them to four-dimensional objects (four-dimensionalism).
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But this is tantamount to saying that individuals requiring divine conservation are wholes of instantaneous temporal parts.
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But there is no reason to think that an existent table cannot have nonexistent temporal parts.
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Processes persist by perduring, by having different temporal parts at different times.
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One can define it using the conceptual machinery of four-dimensionalism in terms of temporal parts but this option is not open to the adverbialist.
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Structurally, the study is divided into two temporal parts.
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But this is possible only if individuals are not continuants, but wholes of temporal parts.
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A continuant, unlike a process, does not have temporal parts or stages, with different parts present at different times.
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Again, this is because continuants lack temporal parts.
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Could we avoid the whole puzzle by adopting temporal parts along with mereological universalism?
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Craig argues that the idea of temporal parts is open to serious difficulties, particularly from the idea of personal identity.
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Individuals are wholes of temporal parts.
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