Before and after

How running* can help demonstrate to your metaphysics class the difference between a thick particular and a thin particular:

Before:

(2008)

before4 (july 2008)

before1.1 (july 2008)

After:

(2011)

after2.1 (july 2011) after1.1 (july 2011)

*for a year in 2011, in my living room, while watching MI-5.

This has been a public service announcement…

(And please, don’t ask me to take the next logical step by trying to demonstrate a bare particular. Really, no.)