14963 | Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad] |
14759 | A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad] |
11842 | If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad] |
9019 | Four-d objects helps predication of what no longer exists, and quantification over items from different times [Quine] |
15271 | If things are successive instantaneous events, nothing requires those events to resemble one another [Harré/Madden] |
11876 | It is easier to go from horses to horse-stages than from horse-stages to horses [Wiggins] |
16024 | I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan] |
12296 | 4-D says things are stretched in space and in time, and not entire at a time or at a location [Fine,K] |
18882 | You can ask when the wedding was, but not (usually) when the bride was [Fine,K, by Simons] |
16026 | 4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois] |
8272 | How can you identify temporal parts of tomatoes without referring to tomatoes? [Lowe] |
14726 | Four-dimensionalists assert 'temporal parts', 'perduring', and being spread out over time [Sider] |
14728 | 4D says intrinsic change is difference between successive parts [Sider] |
14729 | 4D says each spatiotemporal object must have a temporal part at every moment at which it exists [Sider] |
16191 | Perdurance needs an atemporal perspective, to say that the object 'has' different temporal parts [Hawley] |
16197 | How does perdurance theory explain our concern for our own future selves? [Hawley] |
16199 | If an object is the sum of all of its temporal parts, its mass is staggeringly large! [Hawley] |
16201 | Perdurance says things are sums of stages; Stage Theory says each stage is the thing [Hawley] |
16240 | If a life is essentially the sum of its temporal parts, it couldn't be shorter or longer than it was? [Hawley] |
12837 | Four dimensional-objects are stranger than most people think [Simons] |
14021 | Worm Perdurantism has a fusion of all the parts; Stage Perdurantism has one part at a time [Crisp,TM] |
14591 | Four-dimensionalists say instantaneous objects are more fundamental than long-lived ones [Hawthorne] |
23788 | Four-Dimensional is Perdurantism (temporal parts), plus Eternalism [Williams,NE] |
22620 | If causation involves production, that needs persisting objects [Ingthorsson] |