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Aspectual Compresence

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Published/Copyright: January 31, 2025

Abstract

Some properties come necessarily clustered. Something, a clustering device, must necessarily keep them clustered. Compresence is one candidate, and it is unclear how to understand it. I discern two aspects of it: compresence as simultaneity and compresence as co-location. Then I clarify certain issues over it, particularly regarding whether or not it is transitive and whether or not it figures in the bundle. Contrary to popular belief, I argue that compresence, under the two-aspectual reading, is transitive and constitutive of the bundle.


Corresponding author: Youssef Aguisoul, University of Lisbon, Cidade Universitária, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

This paper would not have been possible without the insightful discussions with David Yates and Bruno Jacinto.

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Received: 2023-10-07
Accepted: 2024-10-16
Published Online: 2025-01-31
Published in Print: 2025-04-28

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