Single Idea 16193

[catalogued under 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change]

Full Idea

Another strategy for the problem of change says that instantiation - the having of properties - is time-indexed, or relative to times, although properties themselves are not. This 'adverbialism' says that object has-at-t some property.

Gist of Idea

'Adverbialism' explains change by saying an object has-at-some-time a given property

Source

Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 1.5)

Book Reference

Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.21


A Reaction

[She cites Johnson, Lowe and Haslanger for this] Promising. The question is whether the time index is attached to the object, to the property, or to the instantiation. The middle one is wrong. There aren't two properties - green-at-t1 and green-at-t2.