Temporal Parts and Time Travel.
This paper argues that, in light of certain scenarios involving time travel, Sider's definition of 'instantaneous temporal part' cannot be accepted in conjunction with a semantic thesis that perdurantists often assume. I examine a rejoinder from Sider, as well as Thomson's alternative definition of...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 225 - 241 |
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Mar2011
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