(December 6, 2018 at 4:33 am)Belaqua Wrote: As you know, what is logically prior need not be temporally prior.
If a logician says that space-time is logically or essentially prior to, say, hydrogen, it doesn't matter whether space-time appeared first in time and then hydrogen appeared later, or whether they appeared at the same instant.
In what way is a part of a car logically prior to the car itself without being perhaps temporally prior?