Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Theodore Sider and Edward N. Zalta

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
Four-dimensionalism sees things and processes as belonging in the same category [Sider]
     Full Idea: Four-dimensionalism does not respect a deep difference between thing-talk and process-talk, because it tends to place events and things in the same ontological category.
     From: Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 6.1)
     A reaction: He then quotes Broad, Idea 14759. This idea is the best reason yet for being sympathetic to the four-dimensionalist view, because I think processes really must have a central place in any decent ontology.