• definition of perdurantism. Others argue that this problem is avoided by creating time as a continuous function, rather than a discrete one. Perdurantism is also...
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  • Opponents will then charge perdurantism with numerous difficulties of its own. First, it is controversial whether perdurantism can be formulated coherently...
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  • times exist, while perdurantism is a theory about persisting objects and their identity conditions over time. Eternalism and perdurantism tend to be discussed...
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  • time. This conception of an individual as always present is opposed to perdurantism or four-dimensionalism, which maintains that an object is a series of...
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  • perdurantists such as David Lewis have attacked this position. They argue that perdurantism is the superior view for its ability to take account of change in objects...
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  • mereological essentialism are endurantism and perdurantism. It is important to note that neither endurantism nor perdurantism imply mereological essentialism. One...
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  • mode of existence of fixed essences or whether enduring objects (e.g., perdurantism and endurantism) may be ontologically more primary than processes. Artificial...
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  • Eternalism Four-dimensionalism Fatalism Finitism Growing block universe Perdurantism Presentism Related articles Etiology Metaphysics Post hoc ergo propter...
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  • Haecceity Interchangeable parts Mereological essentialism Neurath's boat Perdurantism Philosophy of self Przekładaniec Sorites paradox Śūnyatā Swampman Teletransportation...
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  • mereology meaning the study of parts and wholes. David Lewis believed in perdurantism and introduced the term gunk. Peter Van Inwagen believes in mereological...
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  • eternalism and four-dimensionalism. Endurantism New riddle of induction Perdurantism The Unreality of Time McTaggart, J. M. E. (1927). The Nature of Existence...
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    ways of conceptualizing persistence through time are endurantism and perdurantism. According to endurantism, material objects are three-dimensional entities...
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  • Difference (philosophy) Exact similarity and identity Four-dimensionalism/perdurantism Open individualism Teleportation paradox Vertiginous question Stanford...
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    changes in the meantime resulting in it being discernible from itself. Perdurantism or four-dimensionalism is an alternative approach holding that diachronic...
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  • of time Centered worlds Endurantism Eternity Growing block universe Perdurantism Problem of future contingents Specious present Ingram, David; Tallant...
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    20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic Nominalism Perdurantism Institutions Princeton University Doctoral advisor Willard Van Orman...
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  • Originally it was argued that those who believe in temporal parts believe in perdurantism, that persisting objects are wholes composed entirely of temporal parts...
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  • the brain to continuously change (Spike-timing-dependent plasticity) Perdurantism – Theory that an object does not exist except only as different "time...
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  • Eternalism Four-dimensionalism Fatalism Finitism Growing block universe Perdurantism Presentism Related articles Etiology Metaphysics Post hoc ergo propter...
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  • problem. (e) 4-dimensionalism or temporal parts (may also go by the names perdurantism or exdurantism), which roughly states that aggregates of temporal parts...
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  • Objectivism Omniverse theory Open individualism Organicism Panlogism Perdurantism Phenomenalism Philosophical realism Physicalism Pirsig's metaphysics...
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  • snapshot in time. When we freeze time we can only see a part of the perdurant. Perdurants are often what we know as processes, for example: "running". If...
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  • Eternalism Four-dimensionalism Fatalism Finitism Growing block universe Perdurantism Presentism Related articles Etiology Metaphysics Post hoc ergo propter...
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  • question-begging. Mereology Mereological nihilism Mereological essentialism Perdurantism Endurantism Mereotopology Zimmerman, Dean (editor) Oxford Studies in...
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  • Regarding persistence, the distinction between endurants (objects) and perdurants (processes) is made explicit within GFO by the introduction of a special...
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  • is disjoint with Persistent Item. A Temporal Entity is comparable to a perdurant. Propositional Object a set of statements about real or imaginary things...
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  • differentiates features from geographic processes and events, which are perdurants that only exist in time[clarification needed]; and from geographic masses...
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  • He has been an influential defender of the B-theory of time, and of perdurantism. His most important original arguments in this area concern the passage...
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  • party. It has been active from 2012. It is led by Manos Konstas. Daniel Perdurant, "Antisemitism in Contemporary Greek Society", Analysis of Current Trends...
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    School Analytic philosophy Australian realism Immanent realism Factualism Perdurantism (four-dimensionalism) Academic advisors John Anderson Main interests...
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