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    It is not the case that B-theory perdurantism faces a semantic problem

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    • The combination of B-theory with perdurantism generates difficulties in semantic interpretation
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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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