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    Challenges→If a B-theoretic subject S knows what time it is at more than one time, then they undergo changes.

    Change for a perduring entity requires that numerically distinct temporal parts differ intrinsically, but distributing knowledge across parts entails no part itself undergoes change.

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    Perduring entity(as used in metaphysics (the study of what exists))
    Something that continues to exist over time as a single, unified thing—like you, who remains 'you' from childhood to adulthood even though you change.
    Temporal parts(Four-dimensionalist solution to the problem of change)
    Distinct stages of a temporally extended object, such that the puppy Oscar and the old gray-muzzled Oscar are distinct parts of the whole Oscar
    intrinsically(as opposed to something being miraculous only when compared to expectations)
    Built into something's very nature or essence; part of what makes it what it is, independent of outside factors.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
    numerically distinct(Used to characterize the parts of the Form that must exist separately in each participant)
    Being distinct in the sense of being different individual tokens, not merely different in kind or quality.

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