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    The notion of 'overlapping' worms at a stage requires cla... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The four-dimensionalist framework of Lewis and Sider allows that Adam is a temporal stage shared by two distinct person-worms that overlap at the pre-twinning segment.

    The notion of 'overlapping' worms at a stage requires clarification: either stages are mereological parts (making overlap impossible) or the framework is obscure about composition.

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    Key Terms

    Mereological parts(as used in metaphysics and ontology)
    The basic building blocks that make up a larger whole, like how atoms are parts of a molecule. In philosophy, mereology is the study of how parts fit together to form wholes.
    Obscure (in philosophical context)(as used in evaluating philosophical arguments)
    Unclear or ambiguous—when a theory doesn't explain something well enough for us to fully understand what it means.
    Overlap (in mereology)(in the study of parts and wholes)
    When two parts or objects share some common piece or region. For example, two overlapping circles share the area where they cross.
    Stages(as used in metaphysics)
    In perdurantism, the different time-slices or versions of an object as it exists at different moments.
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    (as used in metaphysics when discussing how things persist through time)
    In philosophy, a 'worm' is an object that extends through time the way a physical object extends through space—like a four-dimensional object that includes all its past and future versions at once.
    composition(Zabarella's method as commonly described)
    The movement back from causes to effects.

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