id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hftoqalofjfalky6zans7tirma Thomas Pashby Do Quantum Objects Have Temporal Parts? 2013 17 .pdf application/pdf 4985 358 61 argument that quantum objects (described by pure states) cannot have temporal parts. I propose that a perduring quantum object has temporal parts in the same way as it time they exist) and perdurantism (the view that persisting objects are temporally extended Like perdurantism, stage theory maintains that persisting objects have temporal parts. regarding the quantum state as describing a persisting material object. time t = 0, then the states |ψ(t)〉 describe the lifetime of a persisting object which exists at picture states |ψ(t)〉, then the temporal parts of a persisting quantum object correspond to sets Thus a suitable account of what is is for a quantum object |ψ〉 to have temporal parts will through time by having temporal parts in the same way as it persists through space by having mechanics and therefore persisting quantum objects do not have temporal parts, and so cannot ./cache/work_hftoqalofjfalky6zans7tirma.pdf ./txt/work_hftoqalofjfalky6zans7tirma.txt