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    • 1.On B-theory perdurantism, 'Socrates is snub-nosed' must quantify over temporal parts, yet ordinary speakers intend no such quantification.
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    • 2.Sider's worm theory requires predicates like 'is snub-nosed' to apply to person-stages, creating systematic mismatch with natural language semantics.
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    • 3.Lewis's counterpart theory cannot rescue this: it relocates modal but not temporal semantic puzzles about simple present-tense predication.
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    • 1.Haslanger's argument shows that B-theory perdurantism forces all apparently simple property ascriptions to become covertly relational, relativized to temporal parts.
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    • 2.This covert relationality conflicts with Frege's compositionality principle: the semantic value of 'Socrates is pale' should not depend on which temporal slice is contextually salient.
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    • The combination of B-theory with perdurantism generates difficulties in semantic interpretation
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    Suggested Reading: Earlier discussions of temporal parts paid close attention to analogies and disanalogies between space and time: e.g. Taylor (1955), Meiland (1966); Butterfield (1985) reflects on these. Lombard (1999) and Brogaard (2000) argue that presentism is compatible with perdurantism, while Merricks (1995) and Hestevold and Carter (2002) argue that presentism compels endurantism. Benovsky (2009) takes an even-handed approach. Merricks (1995) and Hinchliff (1996) argue that eternalism r
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