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    Challenges→Objects persist through time by having temporal parts (perdurantism)

    Temporal parts entail that there are distinct, momentary entities bearing properties like 'being in pain,' yet our best psychological and moral practices attribute suffering to persisting persons, not instantaneous stages.

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    Key Terms

    Instantaneous stages(philosophy of time)
    Snapshots of something at a single moment in time, with no duration—like a photograph versus a video.
    Momentary entities(metaphysics)
    Things that exist for only an instant, like a single frame in a film, rather than persisting over time.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Persisting persons(metaphysics/philosophy of personal identity)
    The idea that you are a single, continuous being who exists from birth through death, rather than a collection of separate moment-by-moment versions.
    Temporal parts(Four-dimensionalist solution to the problem of change)

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