Perdurantism, Universalism and Quantifiers

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2):208-215 (2003)
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Abstract

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements

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Ordinary objects.Daniel Z. Korman - 2011 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Temporal Parts.Katherine Hawley - 2004/2010 - Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy.
Endurantism and Perdurantism.Nikk Effingham - 2012 - In Robert Barnard Neil Manson (ed.), Continuum Companion to Metaphysics. pp. 170.

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