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Can I be an Instantaneous Stage and yet Persist Through Time?

Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias LU (2008) The 2008 Lund-Rutgers Conference p.78-82
Abstract (Swedish)
Abstract in Undetermined

An alternative to the standard endurance/perdurance accounts of persistence has recently been developed: the stage theory (Sider, 2001; Hawley, 2001). According to this theory, a persisting object is identical with an instantaneous stage (temporal part). On the basis of Leibniz’s Law, I argue that stage theorists either have to deny the alleged identity (i.e. give up their central thesis) or hold that stages are both instantaneous and continuants. I subsequently show that, although stage theory is flexible enough to accommodate the latter claim, the cost for accommodating it is an excessive proliferation of persistence concepts.
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persistence, stage theory, temporal counterparts, predication, Leibniz’s Law
host publication
Procedings of the 2008 Lund-Rutgers Conference, Lund Philosophy Reports 2008:1
editor
Jönsson, Martin
pages
5 pages
publisher
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
conference name
The 2008 Lund-Rutgers Conference
conference location
Sweden
conference dates
2008-01-30 - 2008-01-31
language
English
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  publisher    = {{Lund University (Media-Tryck)}},
  title        = {{Can I be an Instantaneous Stage and yet Persist Through Time?}},
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