Abstract
AbstractPerdurance is a mode of persistence. The heart of perdurance is a space-time analogy: a perduring object is extended in time in a way that is analogous to how a composite object is extended in space. This paper is a discussion of perdurance in light of the distinction between mereologically structured and unstructured objects. I show that while the standard formulation of perdurance captures the space-time analogy for unstructured objects, it fails to capture the space-time analogy for temporally and spatially structured objects. I conclude that there are substantially different ways for an object to be space-like temporally extended.
Funder
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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