Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time /

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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Table of Contents:

The four-dimensional picture
Against presentism
Three- and four-dimensionalism stated
In favor of four-dimensionalism, part 1
In favor of four-dimensionalism, part 2 : the best unified theory of the paradoxes of coincidence
Arguments against four-dimensionalism.