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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| Keywords | permanent and successive entities three- and four-dimensionalism limit decision problem location temporal parts |
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| DOI | 10.1163/15685349-12341339 |
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Four Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time.Theodore Sider - 2001 - Oxford University Press.
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