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    It is not the case that There is a major difference between substances and events with respect to their temporal parts.

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    • 1.Four-dimensionalist ontology (Sider, Lewis) treats objects as perduring wholes composed of temporal parts just as events are.
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    • 2.If 'temporal stages' of persons or chairs are coherent theoretical posits, the alleged asymmetry between substances and events dissolves.
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    • 3.The intuition that object-phases are unnatural merely reflects ordinary language bias, not a deep metaphysical distinction.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Whitehead's process ontology denies that enduring substances are ontologically primary, reducing them to structured sequences of occasions.
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    • 2.If what we call 'substances' are best analyzed as stable patterns within event-streams, the substance/event distinction collapses before any temporal-parts asymmetry can arise.
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    • 1.The temporal parts of events are themselves events in their own right (e.g., movements of a performance are events).
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    • 2.The temporal phases of an object's existence are not themselves objects.
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    • 3.It is not natural to speak of the temporal parts of objects at all.
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