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In the philosophy of time, four dimensionalism is someimtes used to refer to the view that reality is a four-dimensional continuum composed of time and space (spacetime). The principal argument for four dimensionalism is the Rietdijk-Putnam argument.

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.

References

• Four Dimensionalism. M.C.Rea. The Oxford Handbook for Metaphysics. Describes four dimensionalism.

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