Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 90f
Interval/time interval/mereology/van Benthem/Needham/Simons: interval is a term of time and terms of temporal intervals.
Needham: an interval is temporal betweenness. Benthem: the term "interval" is part of time organization.
>Time, >Parts, >Temporal identity.
I 117
Object/thing/everyday language/time/existence/modification/terminology/Simons: we say, an ordinary material object lasts in time (enduring in time) but it is not extended in time (developing, extending, extended in time ).
Cf. >Endurantism, >Perdurantism.
Participants in the race (continuants) have no temporal parts. The race has temporal parts.
I 178
Time/Simons: we assume time as being dense and empty and not relativized onto events.
>Events.
Singular Term: the singular term is also not temporally relativized. Identity predicate: the identity predicate is not time relativized (unlike the existence predicate).
>Singular terms.
Time relativized is written as follows: "true-to-t".
Points in time themselves are not relativized temporal.
>Spacetime points.