The Limit Decision Problem and Four-Dimensionalism

Vivarium 55 (1-3):199-216 (2017)
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I argue that medieval solutions to the limit decision problem imply four-dimensionalism, i.e. the view according to which substances that persist through time are extended through time as well as through space, and have different temporal parts at different times.

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Damiano Costa
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