[Review of Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time, by Tider]

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Koslicki, Kathrin

• Introduction: How do the familiar concrete objects of common-sense persist through time? The four- dimensionalist argues that they perdure, i.e., they persist through time by having temporal parts at each of the times at which they exist. The three-dimensionalist, on the other hand, holds that ordinary concrete objects endure; they lack an additional temporal dimension and persist, instead, by being (as they say) ‘wholly present’ at each of the times at which they exist.

• Date created

  2003

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Ontology
  • Three-Dimensionalism
  • Four-Dimensionalism
  • Mereology

• Type of Item

  Review

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3CN6ZD6Z

• License

  © 2003 K. Koslicki et al. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.