Concept
Temporal parts
Overview
term in contemporary metaphysics
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Each such instantaneous space represents the ideal of nature at an instant and is also a moment of time. Each time-system thus possesses an aggregate of moments belonging to it alone. Each event-particle lies in one and only one moment of a given time-system. An event-particle has three characters[12]: (i) its extrinsic character which is its character as a definite route of convergence among events, (ii) its…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
Close in meaning to Temporal parts; the term itself is not named.
The total temporal duration of such an event bearing an enduring pattern, constitutes its specious present. Within this specious present the event realises itself as a totality, and also in so doing realises itself as grouping together a number of aspects of its own temporal parts. One and the same pattern is realised in the total event, and is exhibited by each of these various parts through an aspect of each part…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
Names Temporal parts.
This synthetical and à priori determined unity in relation of perceptions in time is therefore the rule: “All empirical determinations of time must be subject to rules of the general determination of time”; and the analogies of experience, of which we are now about to treat, must be rules of this nature.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
Close in meaning to Temporal parts; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Peter van Inwagen
- Metaphysics
- Perdurantism
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Identity of indiscernibles
- Endurantism
- On the Plurality of Worlds
Place in the tradition
Part of Ontology.