Talk:Perdurantism
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This article is not in line with the usage you'll find in the literature: "Perdurantism" (and talk of "temporal parts") implies the "worm" theory - in stage theory, persisting things don't have temporal parts. There's a nice clear discussion of this in Sally Haslanger's article "Persistence through time" in the Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. (She coins the term "exdurance" as a name for the type of persistence stage theorists believe in). So stage theory should not be described as a variety of perdurantism ("four-dimensionalism" is available as a label for the view of which perdurantism and stage theory are variants - this is Sider's usage). And Sider and Hawley should not be described as perdurantists - they are stage theorists. Josh Parsons 07:00, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The bearing of time's divisibility on the existence of instants
From the article:
[...] for every interval of time, there is a sub-interval. Consequently there are no instants [...].
I can't be arsed to comb through Zimmerman, but we need verification that this conclusion is in the reference and not original research. Particularly because it is incorrect. The same argument could be made: the real line is arbitrarily divisible and so there are no numbers. Thanks in advance. 02:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
