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(Again, perdurantists may adopt one of these epistemicist strategies, but typically do not.)

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Why do perdurantists make such a big deal of the obvious fact that you have different parts at different times?

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(Most perdurantists think that things have non-instantaneous temporal parts too, like you-during-1999.)

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It is possible to believe in temporal parts without accepting this second claim but, as we will see in section 8, most perdurantists do accept the second claim.

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According to perdurantists, talk about the same banana at different times is straightforwardly made true by one and the same four-dimensional object existing at different times.

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If you think about all times, and imagine that ordinary things are made of instantaneous temporal parts, then you can see that universalist perdurantists believe in quite an extraordinary number of objects.

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However they argue for their position, perdurantists who are also universalists have an easy answer to some questions about what paths objects may take through space-time: any series of object-stages composes an object.

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Tib and Tibbles are both long-lasting four-dimensional objects, according to perdurantists.

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In response, perdurantists distinguish two ways of talking about persisting things - an atemporal way, which takes in all times at once, and a temporal way of talking, relative to various times.

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According to perdurantists, the name refers to a ninety-year-long

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