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Since space-time originated with the universe and therefore similarly has a finite past, the cause of the universe's existence must transcend space-time (must have existed aspatially and, when there was no universe, atemporally).
Cosmological Argument Reichenbach, Bruce 2008
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For example, consider the system Kd. If we read d atemporally as all obligations past, present, and future are met, then the only relevant worlds are those so ideal that in them there has never been a single violation of a mandatory norm.
Deontic Logic McNamara, Paul 2006
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But perdurantists prefer to think atemporally about what parts you have, full stop (what parts you have, period).
Temporal Parts Hawley, Katherine 2004
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And so I now feel free to tell, for sheer narrative pleasure, the story of Adso of Melk, and I am comforted and consoled in finding it immeasurably remote in time (now that the waking of reason has dispelled all the monsters that its sleep had generated), gloriously lacking in any relevance for our day, atemporally alien to our hopes and our certainties.
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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