| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The four-dimensional picture -- Against presentism -- Three- and four-dimensionalism stated -- In favor of four-dimensionalism, part 1 -- In favor of four-dimensionalism, part 2 : the best unified theory of the paradoxes of coincidence -- Arguments against four-dimensionalism |
| Summary |
According to 'four-dimensionalism', temporally extended things are composed of temporal parts. Most four-dimensionalists identify ordinary continuants, the persisting objects ordinary language quantifies over and names, with aggregates of temporal parts ('space-time worms'), but an attractive alternate version of four-dimensionalism identifies ordinary continuants with instantaneous temporal slices and accounts for temporal predication using temporal counterpart theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages (237-250) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Space and time.
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Time.
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Fourth dimension.
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Time
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time.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Fourth dimension
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Space and time
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Time
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Tijd.
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Ruimte-tijd-theorie.
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Ontologie (filosofie)
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Vierdimensionale ruimten.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press.
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| ISBN |
019924443X |
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9780199244430 |
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9780191529580 |
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0191529583 |
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9780191598425 |
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0191598429 |
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1281944335 |
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9781281944337 |
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