- four-dimensionalist
theories called "perdurantism" and "exdurantism". For a
perdurantist, all
objects are
considered to be four-dimensional
worms and they make...
- "space-time worm",
which has
earned the
perdurantist view the
moniker of "the worm view".
While all
perdurantists are
plausibly considered four dimensionalists...
-
Under endurantism, the same disc
endures despite its rotations. The
perdurantist supposedly has a
difficult time
explaining what it
means for such a disc...
- changes, they gain or lose
properties but
remain the same otherwise.
Perdurantists see
material objects as four-dimensional
entities that
extend through...
- and ****ure instances,
though still numerically identical with them). A
perdurantist on the
other hand
holds that for a
thing to
exist through time is for...
-
problem as Lewis's
perdurantism does.
Haslanger claims that Lewis's
perdurantist solution is not the only solution, and
endurantism can
resolve this problem...
- 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...
- of
philosophy at the
University of Delaware. Philosophically, he is a
perdurantist following in the
footsteps of
David Lewis.
Hanley believes that time...
-
enduring objects have only
their spatial parts essentially.
Within a
perdurantist framework,
objects are
extended through space-time; they have
parts in...
- by
having temporal parts at
different times. In this respect, he is a
perdurantist. Lastly,
Williams thinks events are
temporally related by
earlier than/later...
