On Being Spread Out in Time: Temporal Parts and the Problem of Change

1991 ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Simons
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Parts

Processes

Philosophy ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 72 (279) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland Stout
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Temporal Parts ◽  
Physical Objects

A natural picture to have of events and processes is of entities which extend through time and which have temporal parts, just as physical objects extend through space and have spatial parts. While accepting this picture of events, in this paper I want to present an alternative conception of processes as entities which, like physical objects, do not extend in time and do not have temporal parts, but rather persist in time. Processes and events belong to metaphysically distinct categories. Moreover the category of events is not the more basic of the two.

Noonan on temporal parts

Analysis ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-216
Author(s):  
G. Spinks
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Parts

Predicates, parts, and impermanence: a contemporary version of some central Buddhist tenets

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-488
Author(s):  
MATTHEW McKEEVER
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Logical Constant ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine ◽  
Spatially Extended ◽  
Temporal Parts ◽  
Spatial Locations

AbstractIn this article, I argue that recent work in analytic philosophy on the semantics of names and the metaphysics of persistence supports two theses in Buddhist philosophy, namely the impermanence of objects and a corollary about how referential language works. According to this latter package of views, the various parts of what we call one object (say, King Milinda) possess no unity in and of themselves. Unity comes rather from language, in that we have terms (say, ‘King Milinda’) which stand for all the parts taken together. Objects are mind- (or rather language-)generated fictions. I think this package can be cashed out in terms of two central contemporary views. The first is that there are temporal parts: just as an object is spatially extended by having spatial parts at different spatial locations, so it is temporally extended by having temporal parts at different temporal locations. The second is that names are predicates: rather than standing for any one thing, a name stands for a range of things. The natural language term ‘Milinda’ is not akin to a logical constant, but akin to a predicate.Putting this together, I'll argue that names are predicates with temporal parts in their extension, which parts have no unity apart from falling under the same predicate. ‘Milinda’ is a predicate which has in its extension all Milinda's parts. The result is an interesting and original synthesis of plausible positions in semantics and metaphysics, which makes good sense of a central Buddhist doctrine.

Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood

Noûs ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 738-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric T. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Parts

Changing Dance Works

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Anna Pakes
Keyword(s):  
Relative Importance ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
Temporal Parts ◽  
Different Levels

The chapter discusses how variability and change pose particular issues for an ontology of dance works as structures of action-types, which prompts consideration of some alternative positions. The argument (developed by Guy Rohrbaugh) that dance works are historical individuals or continuants is elaborated and critically discussed. The chapter also considers a perdurantist alternative: that dance works are fusions of their performances or temporal parts. Both endurantism and perdurantism struggle to account for the principles of continuity uniting the various embodiments or parts of works, however. The chapter reexamines the idea of persistence in the context of historical dance practice and explores the significance of processes of oral transmission for the continued existence and variability of dance works, focusing on the different levels of intention at which the action constituting a dance might be described. The relative importance of these levels at different historical moments is considered.

Events

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.H. Mellor
Keyword(s):  
David Hume ◽  
Temporal Parts ◽  
Mental Events ◽  
Over Time

Events are entities like collisions and speeches, as opposed to things like planets and people. Many are changes, for example things being first hot and then cold. All lack a thing’s full identity over time: either they are instantaneous, or they have temporal parts, like a speech’s words, which stop them being wholly present at an instant; whereas things, which lack temporal parts, are wholly present throughout their lives. Events may be identified with two types of entity: facts, like the fact that David Hume dies, corresponding to truths like ‘Hume dies’; or particulars which, like things, correspond to names, for example ‘Hume’s death’. Which one they are taken to be affects the content of many metaphysical theories: such as that all particulars are things; that times, or causes and effects, or actions, are events; or that mental events are physical.

Temporal Parts

1991 ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Robin Le Poidevin
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Parts

scholarly journals Klein Gordon Field in FLRW Space-Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
S.K. Sharma ◽  
P.R. Dhungel ◽  
U. Khanal
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Harmonics ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Equation Of Motion ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Wkb Approximation ◽  
Temporal Parts ◽  
Klein Gordon ◽  
Current Energy ◽  
Particle Current

As a continuation of solving the equations governing the perturbation of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson- Walker (FLRW) space-time in Newman-Penrose formalism, the behaviour of the massive Klein-Gordon (KG) field coupled to the FLRW has been investigated. The Equation of Motion has been written and solved separately for radial and temporal parts. The former solution has come to be in terms of the Gegenbauer polynomials and spherical harmonics and the latter being in the WKB approximation. The particle current, energy momentum tensor and potential have also been obtained.

A comparative study on the dynamic heterogeneity of supercooled polymers under nanoconfinement

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (28) ◽  
pp. 15888-15898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu-Jia Li ◽  
Hu-Jun Qian ◽  
Zhong-Yuan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Polymer Thin Films ◽  
Dynamic Heterogeneity ◽  
System P ◽  
Temporal Parts

Dynamic gradient and faster dynamics on average in polymer thin films are two leading factors, resulted from the nanoconfinement effect, have distinct influences on spatial and temporal parts of the dynamic heterogeneity in the system.

ThePsychological whole. I: The temporal parts of presentation

Axiomathes ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Albertazzi
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Parts
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