| 词汇 | example_english_temporal-part |
| 释义 | temporal partscollocation in Englishmeanings of temporaland partThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with part. temporal adjective uk /ˈtem.pər.əl/ us /ˈtem.pɚ.əl/ formal relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than ... See more at temporal part noun uk /pɑːt/ us /pɑːrt/ some but not all of ... See more at part Examples of temporal partsThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. For a temporalpart can exist without a temporal whole. Persons are not bundles of the temporal parts of a person, tied together as the strings in a rope, but indivisible. The only way an object could lack temporal parts is to either be a temporal, but instantaneous, entity, or to be a non-temporal entity. There is no need to introduce other relations, which hold between temporal parts and connect them to four-dimensional objects (four-dimensionalism). But this is tantamount to saying that individuals requiring divine conservation are wholes of instantaneous temporal parts. But there is no reason to think that an existent table cannot have nonexistent temporal parts. Processes persist by perduring, by having different temporal parts at different times. One can define it using the conceptual machinery of four-dimensionalism in terms of temporal parts but this option is not open to the adverbialist. Structurally, the study is divided into two temporal parts. But this is possible only if individuals are not continuants, but wholes of temporal parts. A continuant, unlike a process, does not have temporal parts or stages, with different parts present at different times. Again, this is because continuants lack temporal parts. Could we avoid the whole puzzle by adopting temporal parts along with mereological universalism? Craig argues that the idea of temporal parts is open to serious difficulties, particularly from the idea of personal identity. Individuals are wholes of temporal parts. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of temporal Go to the definition of part See other collocations with part |
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