Persons are not made of temporal parts.
The article discusses four-dimensionalism, a philosophical view that ordinary things last by having temporal parts, and contends that people are not made of temporal parts. A philosophical discussion of three-dimensionality and four-dimensionality is presented. The author discusses space-time worms...
| Publicado en: | Analysis Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 7 - 12 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2007
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| Sumario: | The article discusses four-dimensionalism, a philosophical view that ordinary things last by having temporal parts, and contends that people are not made of temporal parts. A philosophical discussion of three-dimensionality and four-dimensionality is presented. The author discusses space-time worms to illustrate his discussion of temporal parts. The author furthers an argument by Roderick Chisholm about how a "stand-in" cannot have his thoughts for him. |
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