Single Idea 16238

[catalogued under 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay]

Full Idea

Perdurance theory claims that lumps and statues differ modally whilst always being made of the same parts. A natural way to make this less mysterious is for perdurantists to adopt counterpart theory, where objects in different worlds are never identical.

Gist of Idea

Perdurantists can adopt counterpart theory, to explain modal differences of identical part-sums

Source

Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 6.2)

Book Reference

Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.179


A Reaction

This, of course, is exactly the system created by David Lewis. Personally I rather like counterparts, but perdurance seems a tad crazy.