Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time

Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time / Theodore Sider.

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
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Space and time.
Time.
Fourth dimension.
time.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Fourth dimension
Space and time
Time
Tijd.
Ruimte-tijd-theorie.
Ontologie (filosofie)
Vierdimensionale ruimten.
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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.

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