Full Idea
Persistence offers intelligibility: the possibility of understanding a change, and of understanding the products of it.
Gist of Idea
Persistence makes change and its products intelligible
Source
Sally Haslanger (Persistence, Change and Explanation [1989], 8)
Book Reference
'Persistence: contemporary readings', ed/tr. Haslanger,S/|Kurtz,RM [MIT 2006], p.178
A Reaction
I think this is exactly right, and it is a powerful idea with wide implications for metaphysics. Haslanger claims that an understanding of 'substance' is needed, which leads towards my defence of essentialism.
Related Idea
Idea 13927 We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger]