temporality

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While talking incessantly of temporality, the fence is demarcating the border between Israel and the state of prison compounds, and between the compounds and the settlements.

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  1. noun The condition of being temporal or bounded in time.
  2. noun Temporal possessions, especially of the Church or clergy.

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  • Here the correlationist will point out that Meillassoux has privileged temporality, time, but that he could have just as easily made the same argument with reference to spatial distance. —  Larval Subjects .
  • The period marked an emerging split between material, modernist painting and sculpture, driven by formalist criticism, and practices that emphasized movement, temporality, chance, and interactivity.
  • "Phenomenology of Spirit" contains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • The replicants are superior to human beings in many ways, but their shortcoming, as Bruno explains, is their fragmented sense of temporality: They look human, but their pasts are pure fabrications and their life spans are perilously short. —  PopPolitics.com
  • Or would the Sarvâstavâdin opponents have been more concerned with a concrete temporality, time as the generation and extinction of dharmas, and not particularly anxious to defend the reality of past, present and future as abstract categories? —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
 

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  1. Early modern English also temporalitie; from Old French temporalite, French temporalité = Spanish temporalidad = Portuguese temporalidade = Italian temporalitó, from Late Latin temporalita(t-)s, temporariness, present custom, fashion, from Latin temporalis, of the time: see temporal.
 

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/tɛmpəˈræləti/
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