Full Idea
Perdurantism tends to go with the view that it is essentially contingent what follows what, because it is no part of the essence of temporal parts that they be arranged in any particular order.
Clarification
'Perdurantism' says objects extend in time as well as in space
Gist of Idea
Perdurantism imposes no order on temporal parts, so sequences of events are contingent
Source
S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 5.5 1)
Book Reference
Anjum,R.J./Mumford,S.: 'Getting Causes from Powers' [OUP 2011], p.116
A Reaction
Nice. There is nothing illogical, then, in elderly me intervening between childish me and middle-aged me. Essentialists like me must clearly oppose this view. Elderly me must be preceded and caused by middle-aged me.