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Transcending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another.
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At the same time that their protagonists "step off the edge" of known experience by participating in interplanetary, interdimensional, or transtemporal travel, such writers as Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and (to a lesser degree) Ursula K. Le Guin propose through their narratives' complexity that the reader abandon the safety of a "readerly" text's conventional discourse.
However, the Internet has also reversed the way we communicate in terms of the transspatial and transtemporal perspective.
The fact is that many relations we are familiar with are transtemporal, that is, they obtain between entities located a different times.
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“So, what, time travel?” “You accepted translocation, but transtemporal is too far?”
Across time; persistent.
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Yet as Locke, for example, clearly recognized, the transtemporal numerical identity of particular vegetables and animals is nevertheless determined by a continuant, namely a form of 'organization' sufficient to maintain vegetable or animal life: that is, to maintain the intrinsic properties of particular vegetables or animals.
Recall that one's personal essence is constituted as having a transtemporal validity by position-taking acts. I constitute myself as a personal essence with acts whose validity is “from now on.”
Across the temporal lobe of the brain.
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The transtemporal window varies with each patient and the ability to penetrate the temporal bone varies with age, sex, and ethnicity.
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Despite concerns that the facial nerve is in proximity to the dissection, a transtemporal approach to the midface provides a safe and reliable lift with a predictable postoperative course.