Full Idea
Four-dimensionalism does not respect a deep difference between thing-talk and process-talk, because it tends to place events and things in the same ontological category.
Gist of Idea
Four-dimensionalism sees things and processes as belonging in the same category
Source
Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 6.1)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.211
A Reaction
He then quotes Broad, Idea 14759. This idea is the best reason yet for being sympathetic to the four-dimensionalist view, because I think processes really must have a central place in any decent ontology.
Related Idea
Idea 14759 A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]