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Single Idea 16195

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

Full Idea

Adopting presentism solves the problem of change, since it means that, once the banana is yellow, there just is no green banana, and the question of the relationship between yesterday's green banana and today's yellow one therefore does not arise.

Gist of Idea

Presentism solves the change problem: the green banana ceases, so can't 'relate' to the yellow one

Source

Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 1.7)

Book Reference

Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.34


A Reaction

Change remains kind of odd, but it is no longer the puzzlement of two things being the same when they are admitted to be different. There is only ever one thing. This is my preferred account, I think. I certainly hope past bananas don't exist.