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| In the ], '''four dimensionalism''' |
In the ], '''four dimensionalism''' is a badly defined term. | ||
| It is sometimes used to refer to the view that the past, present and future are all 'equally real', and that (tenselessly) there exist dinosaurs, people and (if there will be such things) cities on Mars. These things don't exist now but they do exist, with the analogy often being that, if I am in London, New York doesn't exist here even though it does exist. It is to be contrasted with '''presentism'''. 'Four dimensionalism' is also sometimes used to refer to this view plus the ]. | |||
| Sometimes the term is instead used to refer to the view that objects persist by having temoral parts. This is the view that, for all regions of time in which a persisting object is located, that object has a temporal part that is exactly located at that region of time. This is in contrast to endurentism (sometimes called "three dimensionalism"), which says that objects are wholly located at each time at which they exist. | |||
| But sometimes the term is instead used to refer to the view that objects persist by having ]. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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In the philosophy of time, four dimensionalism is a badly defined term.
It is sometimes used to refer to the view that the past, present and future are all 'equally real', and that (tenselessly) there exist dinosaurs, people and (if there will be such things) cities on Mars. These things don't exist now but they do exist, with the analogy often being that, if I am in London, New York doesn't exist here even though it does exist. It is to be contrasted with presentism. 'Four dimensionalism' is also sometimes used to refer to this view plus the B-Theory of time.
But sometimes the term is instead used to refer to the view that objects persist by having temporal parts.
References
- Four Dimensionalism. M.C.Rea. The Oxford Handbook for Metaphysics. Describes four dimensionalism.
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