Single Idea 16212

[catalogued under 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts]

Full Idea

A single isolated stage could not be a banana, because in order to be a banana a stage must be suitably related to other stages with appropriate properties.

Gist of Idea

An isolated stage can't be a banana (which involves suitable relations to other stages)

Source

Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.4.1)

Book Reference

Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.78


A Reaction

This seems at odds with the claim that each stage is the whole thing (rather than the long temporal 'worm' of perdurance theory). Isolated stages are instantaneous, so can't be anything, really. Her 'relations' seem hand-wavy to me. Connections?

Related Idea

Idea 16201 Perdurance says things are sums of stages; Stage Theory says each stage is the thing [Hawley]