PERSISTENCE AND SPACE-TIME: PHILOSOPHICAL LESSONS OF THE POLE AND BARN.
Reformulates the rival positions in the debate about persistence and their significance in the framework of special relativistic space-time theories. Definition of persistence; Explanatory advantages of perdurantism over endurantism; Two major rival theories of persistence; Implications of contempo...
| Publicado en: | Monist Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 321 - 341 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2000
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| Sumario: | Reformulates the rival positions in the debate about persistence and their significance in the framework of special relativistic space-time theories. Definition of persistence; Explanatory advantages of perdurantism over endurantism; Two major rival theories of persistence; Implications of contemporary physical theories for the philosophy of time. |
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