Single Idea 14758

[catalogued under 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts]

Full Idea

How can an instantaneous stage believe anything? Beliefs take time.

Gist of Idea

How can an instantaneous stage believe anything, if beliefs take time?

Source

Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 5.8)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.197


A Reaction

Sider's four-dimensionalist answer is that the belief is embodied in the earlier counterparts, making belief a 'highly relational property'. I am not impressed by this answer to the very nice problem which he has raised. It's a problem for 3D, too.