 There are further problems for the view that states of affairs are complexes. If the state of affairs a’s being F has only a and being F as its parts (in any plausible sense of “part”), it can only exist at a time at which a and being F exist (the sum of all my body parts exists only at the time when all my body parts exist). Hence, the state of affairs a’s ceasing to exist before b’s starting to exist cannot be a complex containing a and b. For there is no time when its constituents both exist (see Künne 2003: 122).