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    Challenges→Eternalism and endurantism can be combined coherently

    If times are analogous to places in the block universe, then an object 'wholly present' at multiple times is as paradoxical as a single object being wholly present at multiple distinct spatial locations simultaneously.

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    Key Terms

    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Paradoxical(as describing problematic logical terms)
    Self-contradictory or logically impossible—like a statement that leads to a contradiction no matter what you do with it.
    analogous(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Similar in important ways; if two things are analogous, what's true about one should be true about the other.
    block universe(Contrasted with views on which the future is open or indeterminate)
    The view that past, present, and future all equally exist as a four-dimensional spacetime structure (eternalism)
    wholly present(Described as the implicit rationale behind ordinary concepts of objects, contrasted with the perdurantist view that objects have temporal parts.)

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    An object is wholly present at a time if the entire object, not merely a temporal stage or part of it, exists at that time.

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