Full Idea
Compound objects are to be considered processes, if by ‘process’ we mean any entity for which change is essential for its continued existence.
Gist of Idea
Compound objects are processes, insofar as change is essential to them
Source
R.D. Ingthorsson (A Powerful Particulars View of Causation [2021], 7)
A Reaction
This doesn't seem to matter much, except to challenge those who say that reality consists of processes, and therefore not of substances.
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.106
Related Ideas
Idea 22626 Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher]
Idea 14759 A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]