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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'Contextualism Contested' and 'Persistence, Change and Explanation'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism

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The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present [Haslanger]

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Persistence makes change and its products intelligible [Haslanger]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger]

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If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed [Haslanger]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects

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When an electron 'leaps' to another orbit, is the new one the same electron? [Inwagen]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus

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If you reject transitivity of vague identity, there is no Ship of Theseus problem [Inwagen]