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Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time /

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According to 'four-dimensionalism', temporally extended things are composed of temporal parts. Most four-dimensionalists identify ordinary continuants, the persisting objects ordinary language quantifies over and names, with aggregates of temporal parts ('space-time worms'), but...

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Main Author: Sider, Theodore
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Space and time.
Time.
Fourth dimension.
Time
Temps.
Quatrième dimension.
time.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Fourth dimension
Space and time
Tijd.
Ruimte-tijd-theorie.
Ontologie (filosofie)
Vierdimensionale ruimten.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:According to 'four-dimensionalism', temporally extended things are composed of temporal parts. Most four-dimensionalists identify ordinary continuants, the persisting objects ordinary language quantifies over and names, with aggregates of temporal parts ('space-time worms'), but an attractive alternate version of four-dimensionalism identifies ordinary continuants with instantaneous temporal slices and accounts for temporal predication using temporal counterpart theory.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 255 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages (237-250) and index.
ISBN:019924443X
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