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    Challenges→There exist two distinct kinds of duration: extrinsic duration (the time of celestial motion, which is one in number) and intrinsic duration (dependent on sublunary motions, which is plural).

    If extrinsic duration derives its unity from celestial motion, then the cessation or irregularity of celestial motion would dissolve temporal unity, an unacceptable consequence for any coherent metaphysics of time.

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    Celestial motion(What extrinsic duration is based on)
    The movement of objects in the sky, like planets, stars, and the sun orbiting through space.
    Extrinsic duration(Giles of Rome's theory of time and duration)
    The time of celestial motion, which is one in number.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    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.
    metaphysics of time

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    (as the core subject of the statement)
    The philosophical study of what time actually is—whether it's real or just something we imagine, whether it flows, and what makes it unified and meaningful.
    temporal unity(as used in metaphysics of time)
    The idea that time holds together as one coherent, continuous thing rather than breaking apart into disconnected pieces.

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