Pat H -
Could you explain the logical factors that prevent one from equating
a zero-length time slice of a 4-D object to a 3-D object? It appears
that that is what you were saying: (01)
[PH]
> Just as 3-d entities have 2-d surface and sections, these things have (02)
> 3-d 'surfaces' and 'sections'. A 3-d section of one of them is an
> instantaneous snapshot of it, a freezing of it at a moment in time.
> (If that moment is understood to be 'the present', then at that
> present time, this section is very similar to a continuant, although
> it cannot actually be the continuant for essentially logical
> reasons.) (03)
. . . But I haven't seen the arguments for that. (04)
PatC (05)
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