Temporal Experiences and Their Parts

We think we perceive worldly objects (cows, chairs, fire-trucks) and some of their properties (colour, shape, the spatial relations between objects, as well as their parts). We don’t perceive all of their properties, of course: seeing a cow in a pasture usually provides little information about its birthday or DNA. One difficult question is how to draw the line between those properties that are strictly speaking perceptually accessible and those that aren’t?1 This paper focuses on one specific sort of property: are temporal properties and relations perceptible — in the same way, that is, as shapes, colours, and spatial relations?2 Examples like the following apparently support a positive answer:3

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