PERSISTENCE EGALITARIANISM
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Kurtsal, Irem
Date Issued
January 2021
Abstract
Modal Plenitude-the view that, for every empirically adequate modal profile, there is an object whose modal profile it is-is held to be consistent with each of endurantist and perdurantist (three- and four-dimensionalist) views of persistence. Here I show that, because endurer and perdurer are two substantially different kinds of entity, compossible with each other and consistent with empirical data, Modal Plenitude actually entails a third view about persistence that I call Persistence Egalitarianism. In every non-empty spacetime region there are two persisting objects: one that endures through the temporal dimension of that region, and another that perdures through the region. Additionally, if the argument from anthropocentrism makes a strong case for Modal Plenitude, then an equally strong and parallel case supports Persistence Egalitarianism. I close with the meta-semantic consequences of persistence egalitarianism for ordinary object talk.
Journal
Res Philosophica
Department
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Citation
Kurtsal, Irem. "Persistence Egalitarianism." Res Philosophica 98, no. 1 (2021): 63-88. doi:10.11612/resphil.1877.
Publisher
Philosophy Documentation Center
Version of Article
Published article
DOI
10.11612/resphil.1877
ISSN
2168-9105
2168-9113
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© 2021 ̇Irem Kurtsal • © 2021 Res Philosophica
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