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Full Idea
Temporally extended 'parts' are still mysteriously inseparable and not subject to rearrangement: a thing cannot be cut temporally in half.
Gist of Idea
Temporal 'parts' cannot be separated or rearranged
Source
M.R. Ayers (Individuals without Sortals [1974], 'Prob')
Book Ref
-: 'Canadian Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.122
A Reaction
A nice warning to anyone accepting a glib analogy between spatial parts and temporal parts.