Single Idea 14728

[catalogued under 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism]

Full Idea

For four-dimensionalists intrinsic change is difference between successive temporal parts.

Gist of Idea

4D says intrinsic change is difference between successive parts

Source

Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 3.2)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.56


A Reaction

This attempts a reply to the commonest criticism of four-dimensionalism - that you can't explain change if you don't have one enduring thing which undergoes the change. I get stuck of the question 'how big (temporally) is a part?'.