Metaphysical concept of an object's "presence" in different times
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In contemporary metaphysics, temporal parts are the parts of an object that exist in time. A temporal part would be something like "the first year of a person's life", or "all of a table from between 10:00 a.m. on June 21, 1994 to 11:00 p.m. on July 23, 1996". The term is used in the debate over the persistence of material objects. Objects typically have parts that exist in space—a human body, for example, has spatial parts like hands, feet, and legs. Some metaphysicists believe objects have temporal parts as well.
Originally it was argued that those who believe in temporal parts believe in perdurantism, that persisting objects are wholes composed entirely of temporal parts. This view was contrasted with endurantism, the claim that objects are wholly present at any one time (thus not having different temporal parts at different times). This claim is still commonplace, but philosophers like Ted Sider believe that even endurantists should accept temporal parts.
In contemporary metaphysics, temporalparts are the parts of an object that exist in time. A temporal part would be something like "the first year of a...
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The temporal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals. The temporal lobe is located beneath the lateral fissure...
the brain traverse the temporal bone. The temporal bone consists of four parts— the squamous, mastoid, petrous and tympanic parts. The squamous part is...
different temporalparts of an object". Take any perdurant and isolate a part of its spatial region. That isolated spatial part has a corresponding temporal part...
The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squamous part of the temporal bone, in front of the mastoid process,...
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four-dimensional entities that extend through time and are made up of different temporalparts. At each moment, only one part of the object is present but not the...
the modal dimension, i.e. as having not just spatial and temporalparts but also modal parts. This contrasts with Lewis' modal realism according to which...
present and future time. Temporal databases can be uni-temporal, bi-temporal or tri-temporal. More specifically the temporal aspects usually include valid...
Temporal fenestrae are openings in the temporal region of the skull of some amniotes, behind the orbit (eye socket). These openings have historically...
from each other strictly speaking, they are both temporalparts that belong to the same temporally extended whole. Perdurantism avoids many philosophical...
of the head that fills the temporal fossa, superior to the zygomatic arch so it covers much of the temporal bone.Temporal refers to the head's temples...
skeleton bones. In the neurocranium these are the occipital bone, two temporal bones, two parietal bones, the sphenoid, ethmoid and frontal bones. The...
The superior temporal gyrus (STG) is one of three (sometimes two) gyri in the temporal lobe of the human brain, which is located laterally to the head...
zygomaticofacial nerve. Its postero-lateral surface, smooth and convex, forms parts of the temporal and infratemporal fossae. Its anterior margin, smooth and rounded...
4-dimensionalism or temporalparts (may also go by the names perdurantism or exdurantism), which roughly states that aggregates of temporalparts are intimately...
four-dimensionalism, which maintains that an object is a series of temporalparts or stages, requiring a B-theory of time. The use of "endure" and "perdure"...
proper parts do not exist. This position applies to objects in space, and also to objects existing in time, which are posited to have no temporalparts. Rather...
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The squamous part of temporal bone, or temporal squama, forms the front and upper part of the temporal bone, and is scale-like, thin, and translucent...
been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science. Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists and has been a prime...
components are direction, intensity, and persistence. Stages or phases are temporalparts of how motivation unfolds over time, like the initial goal-setting stage...
but that they actually evolve over time. Time Reborn is divided into two parts: Part I describes established physics and its history from the time of Plato...
The transverse temporal gyri, also called Heschl's gyri (/ˈhɛʃəlz ˈdʒaɪraɪ/) or Heschl's convolutions, are gyri found in the area of primary auditory cortex...
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