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    Challenges→Objects are wholly present at all temporal points of their existence.

    The problem of temporary intrinsics, identified by Lewis, shows that an object being bent at t1 and straight at t2 generates contradiction if the object is wholly present at both times.

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    Lewis(philosopher who created the similarity metric being discussed)
    David Lewis was a famous American philosopher who developed influential theories about possible worlds—alternative ways reality could have been.
    generates contradiction(explaining why the problem is actually a problem)
    Creates a logical impossibility where something would have to be both true and false at the same time, which violates basic rules of logic.
    t1 and t2(marking when the fact existed versus when the action occurred)
    Symbols representing two different points in time, with t1 being earlier and t2 being later.
    temporary intrinsics(Debate framed by David Lewis and others)
    The problem of how a persisting thing can have different intrinsic properties at different times while remaining one and the same thing

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    wholly present(Described as the implicit rationale behind ordinary concepts of objects, contrasted with the perdurantist view that objects have temporal parts.)
    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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