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    If processes perduring requires only that they have succe... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The claim that things have temporal parts if and only if the past and future exist has a peculiar consequence.

    If processes perduring requires only that they have successive stages picked out by our descriptions rather than robustly real future entities, then endurantists can coherently accept process perdurance without accepting an eternalist ontology.

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    Key Terms

    Coherently accept(logic and reasoning)
    To believe in or agree with something without running into logical contradictions.
    Endurantism(Contrasted with views that posit temporal parts)
    The view that things are wholly present whenever they exist
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Robustly real(metaphysics)
    Existing in a strong, independent way—not just as part of how we describe or think about things, but as something that genuinely exists on its own.
    eternalism(Philosophy of language / truth-conditional semantics)

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    The negation of temporalism; the view that propositions do not vary in truth-value across times.
    perdurance(Lewis's account of change)
    The account on which objects persist by having distinct temporal parts at different times

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