"People change over time.
Now it could be that the Extensional theorists are misguided in making this assumption: perhaps phenomenal unity cannot extend over time in the way they claim.
Further, as we saw in §2.5 and §5.5, there are those – e.g., Meinong – who believe that incurable problems arise if we suppose phenomenal unity can extend over time.
Some important philosophers have urged that memory-carried diachronic unity is not sufficient for being one person over time.
As composers gradually departed from repetitive forms, cyclic construction became a chief mode of achieving unity over a large time span and greatly enlarged harmonic vocabulary.
The empirical sign of this essential unity of the species over time is the ability to interbreed and produce fertile offspring, a criterion that takes precedence over similarities of anatomy or habits of life.
We now turn, more briefly, to unified consciousness over time (diachronic unity).
Visiting the crime scene, the investigating prosecutor (Hubert Deschamps) drolly calls it a classical tragedy, and it does observe the Aristotelian unity of time, unfolding over 24 hours.
Considering the means of the normalized data, it is clear that the increase over unity in stance time in the OA group (1.18, 1.40 and 1.43-fold (means ± SD) on days 5, 12 and 19, respectively) was essentially eliminated by injection of HA (1.05, 1.10 and 0.99-fold change (means ± SD) on days 5, 12 and 19, respectively).
While early GSM communities struggled to discover and create their own identities, working sometimes against other GSM communities, over time we have recognized our unity in a joined struggle for civil rights for all, regardless of sexual or gender identity.
