- have been many self-professed
perdurantists who
believe that time is
gunky or
contains no instants. Some
perdurantists think the idea of gunk
means there...
-
synonym for perdurantism.
Perdurantists have to hold a four-dimensional view of
material objects: it is
impossible that
perdurantists, who
believe that objects...
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complete object, and not just a part of a cross-temporal being), but
perdurantists such as
David Lewis have
attacked this position. They
argue that perdurantism...
- change, they gain or lose
properties but
otherwise remain the same.
Perdurantists see
material objects as four-dimensional
entities that
extend through...
- only one part of them is
present but not the others.
According to
perdurantists,
change means that an
earlier part
exhibits different qualities than...
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Under endurantism, the same disc
endures despite its rotations. The
perdurantist supposedly has a
difficult time
explaining what it
means for such a disc...
- role that
perdurantists demand, such as
being parts of
persisting wholes—how can a set be a part of a
material object?
Later perdurantists identified...
-
problem as Lewis's
perdurantism does.
Haslanger claims that Lewis's
perdurantist solution is not the only solution, and
endurantism can
resolve this problem...
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enduring objects have only
their spatial parts essentially.
Within a
perdurantist framework,
objects are
extended through space-time; they have
parts in...
- of
philosophy at the
University of Delaware. Philosophically, he is a
perdurantist following in the
footsteps of
David Lewis.
Hanley believes that time...
