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    Challenges→It is more natural to attribute temporally successive properties of an event to different temporal parts of that event rather than to the event as a whole.

    If ordinary event-talk (e.g., 'the storm intensified then weakened') attributes successive properties to the same event as a whole, then naturalness favors endurantism, not perdurantism, for events.

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    Attributes successive properties(as used in metaphysics)
    Assigns different qualities to something at different times—like saying the same storm is 'intense' at one moment and 'weak' at another moment.
    Endurantism(Contrasted with views that posit temporal parts)
    The view that things are wholly present whenever they exist
    Event-talk(as used in metaphysics)
    The everyday way we speak about things that happen, like saying 'the storm got worse then calmed down.' Philosophers use this phrase to describe how normal people naturally describe events in conversation.
    Naturalness (philosophical)(as a key concept in evaluating what counts as a real property)
    In philosophy, a property is 'natural' if it's a genuine, fundamental feature of reality rather than an artificial or made-up combination—like 'being red' is more natural than 'being red or a prime number.'

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    Perdurantism(Applied to explain the truth-value of tensed singular propositions across times.)
    The view that an object is a sum of temporal parts, with different parts existing at different times.

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