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Single Idea 15541

[from 'Lewis on Perdurance versus Endurance' by E.J. Lowe, in 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change ]

Full Idea

Lowe's solution the 'temporary intrinsics' problem is that particles have no temporary intrinsic properties; they may be safely supposed to endure, and large things consist of those enduring particles, undergoing rearrangement but no intrinsic change.

Gist of Idea

Maybe particles are unchanging, and intrinsic change in things is their rearrangement

Source

report of E.J. Lowe (Lewis on Perdurance versus Endurance [1987]) by David Lewis - Rearrangement of Particles II

Book Reference

Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.191


A Reaction

A mere rearrangement of particles doesn't sound the same as a change in properties, which must involve causal powers in some way.