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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'De ente praedicamentali' and 'Persistence, Change and Explanation'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism
Persistence makes change and its products intelligible [Haslanger]
The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present [Haslanger]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger]
If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed [Haslanger]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
In order to speak about time and successive entities, the 'present' must be enlarged [Wycliff]
To be successive a thing needs parts, which must therefore be lodged outside that instant [Wycliff]