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perdurance

(pəˈdjʊərəns)

formal permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever

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This produces four different views: Musical Perdurantism with Identity, Musical Perdurantism with Permanent Overlap, Musical Endurantism with Identity, and Musical Endurantism with Permanent Overlap.

A plea for concrete universals

Perdurantism holds that entities, biological and otherwise, possess temporal parts and not just spatial parts.

Biological individuals, time, and persistence: the perdurantist foundations of the species-as-individuals thesis

In a previous paper with Robson it was argued that a particular time travel scenario favors perdurantism over endurantism on the grounds that endurantists must give up on the Weak Supplementation Principle.

Australasian Journal of Philosophy: June 2010, Vol. 88, No. 2

54) Each of these approaches, I think, proves as costly to our intuitions about what constitutes a temporary property or how we have temporary properties as perdurantism is to our intuitions about what constitutes a persisting object.

Aristotle on identity and persistence

Indeed, Noonan seems to be defending a richer package: perdurantism plus unrestricted mereological composition.

Gerhard Preyer and Frank Siebelt, editors, Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

Chisholm 's Phenomenal Argument Revisited: A Dilemma for Perdurantism, DONALD SMITH

American Philosophical Quarterly: January 2010, Vol. 47, No. 1

The issue of species persistence through time is investigated using two opposing views: endurantism and perdurantism.

History and Philosophy of Science

Thus considerations pertaining to the nature of vagueness need not lead us inevitably to accept perdurantism.

Ratio: Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2005

This paper considers how to put together two popular ideas in the philosophy of time: detenserism (the view that tense can be analyzed in token-reflexive terms) and perdurantism (the view that objects persist through time by having temporal parts).

Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 83, No. 1, March 2005

Endurantism, Perdurantism and Special Relativity, STEVEN D.

The Philosophical Quarterly: vol. 53, no. 213, October 2003

Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers, ACHILLE C.

Australasian Journal of Philosophy: vol. 81, no. 2, June 2003

Chapter 9 ("The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics") shows that endurantism (embraced by A-theorists) is conceptually superior to perdurantism (embraced by virtually all B-theorists); perdurantism suffers from being metaphysically counterintuitive, defying the phenomenology of personal consciousness, invalidating moral responsibility, and so forth.

Craig, William Lane. The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination

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