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The Kripke-Armstrong argument against temporal parts
Author(s) -
Nikola Stamenković
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo2201087s
Subject(s) - supervenience , argument (complex analysis) , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , theoretical physics , physics , metaphysics , chemistry , biochemistry
Kripke-Armstrong argument aims to establish that the defender of existence of material objects? temporal parts cannot determine whether a lonely homogeneous disc made of continuous matter is rotating around its axis or not. The perdurantist cannot distinguish between these two possibilities by appealing to different instantaneous velocities of instantaneous temporal parts of the disc, since by doing so he would violate the Humean supervenience thesis. In this paper I will show, following Jeremy Butterfield, how Kripke-Armstrong challenge can be answered while retaining Humean supervenience: by appealing to different instantaneous velocities of non-instantaneous temporal parts of the Kripke-Armstrong lonely disc.

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