perdurants

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A form of perdurant — A happening; an entity that only exists partially at any given point in time.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of perdurant

    To be more precise, exactly as in the temporal case in the preceding section, both views have in the modal case the possibility to pick their favourite view on persistence across possible worlds (trans-world identity, counterpart theory, modal perdurants, ...

    2007 September 20, Jiri Benovsky, “The bundle theory and the substratum theory: deadly enemies or twin brothers?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI

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