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| 16209 | How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? |
| Full Idea: Can one really think that point-duration temporal slices of bodies believe things or want things? | |||
| From: Judith (Jarvis) Thomson (People and Their Bodies [1997], p.211), quoted by Katherine Hawley - How Things Persist 2.9 n21 | |||
| A reaction: There is a problem with a slice doing anything long-term. The bottom line is that things are said to 'endure', but that is precisely what time-slices are unable to do. Hawley rejects this idea. |