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

    The analogy between space and time breaks down because spatial extension is simultaneous whereas temporal extension is not, making 'having a part at t' fundamentally unlike 'having a part at location l'.

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    Key Terms

    Simultaneous(as used in philosophy of time)
    Happening at exactly the same time as something else.
    analogy(Contrasted with homology, which concerns correspondence due to common ancestry.)
    A relation based on functional similarity between structures, which can occur despite different evolutionary origins.
    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.
    part(in metaphysics and mereology (the study of parts and wholes))
    A piece or segment of something larger; here used to mean a portion of an object at a specific location or moment.
    spatial extension

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    The idea that something takes up space—it has length, width, and depth. For physical objects, this is a basic feature of what makes them physical.
    temporal extension(in metaphysics)
    The way things stretch out over time—like how an event lasts from a beginning moment to an ending moment.

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