ABOUT STAGE UNIVERSALISM.
Most four-dimensionalists, including both worm and stage theorists, endorse mereological universalism, the thesis that any class of objects has a fusion. But the marriage of four-dimensionalism and universalism is unfortunate and unprofitable: it creates a recalcitrant problem for stage theory's acc...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 57; no. 226; pp. 21 - 40 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2007
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| Sumario: | Most four-dimensionalists, including both worm and stage theorists, endorse mereological universalism, the thesis that any class of objects has a fusion. But the marriage of four-dimensionalism and universalism is unfortunate and unprofitable: it creates a recalcitrant problem for stage theory's account of lingering properties, such as writing ‘War and Peace’ or travelling across the tennis court, which take time to be instantiated. This makes it necessary to impose a natural restriction on diachronic composition. |
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