Endurantism - Wikipedia

Endurantism or endurance theory is a philosophical theory of persistence and identity. According to the endurantist view material objects are persisting three-dimensional individuals wholly present at every moment of their existence. This conception of an individual as always present, is opposed to perdurantism or four dimensionalism which maintains that an object is a series of temporal parts or stages. The use of "endure" and "perdure" to distinguish two ways in which an object can be thought to persist can be traced to David Lewis.

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References

Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Temporal parts". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Lewis, D.K.. 1986. On the Plurality of Worlds Oxford: Blackwell
McKinnon, N. 2002. "The Endurance/Perdurance Distinction", The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80:3 p. 288-306.
Merricks, T. 1999. "Persistence, Parts and Presentism", Noûs 33 p. 421-38.
Sider, T. 2001. Four-Dimensionalism Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Zimmerman, D. 1996. "Persistence and Presentism", Philosophical Papers 25:2.

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Geology	Geological time age chron eon epoch era period Geochronology Geological history of Earth
Physics	Absolute space and time Arrow of time Chronon Coordinate time Instant Proper time Spacetime Theory of relativity Time domain Time translation symmetry Time reversal symmetry
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Concepts in time	Time A priori and a posteriori A series and B series Action Duration Eternal return Eternity Event Eviternity Imaginary time Multiple time dimensions Temporal parts Temporality
Theories of time	A-theory of time B-theory of time Endurantism Eternalism Four-dimensionalism Fatalism Finitism Growing block universe Perdurantism Presentism
Related articles	Etiology Metaphysics Post hoc ergo propter hoc Teleology "The Unreality of Time" The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time An Experiment with Time

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