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Single Idea 16204

[from 'How Things Persist' by Katherine Hawley, in 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts ]

Full Idea

The second worry for Stage Theory is that there are far too many bananas in the world on this account.

Gist of Idea

Stage Theory says every stage is a distinct object, which gives too many objects

Source

Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 2.3)

Book Reference

Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.46


A Reaction

The point is that each (instantaneous) stage is considered to be a whole banana (as opposed to one sum of all the stages of the banana, in the Perdurance view). A pretty serious problem, which she tries to deal with.

Related Ideas

Idea 16203 Stage Theory seems to miss out the link between stages of the same object [Hawley]

Idea 16205 The stages of Stage Theory seem too thin to populate the world, or to be referred to [Hawley]