Meanings
verbperdure (third-person singular simple present perdures, present participle perduring, simple past and past participle perdured)
present singular third person perdures · participle present perduring · participle past perdured · past perdured
- intransitiveTo continue to exist, last or endure, especially for a great length of time.
Saying that a trait has an evolutionary history is to say something stronger than the fact that it has perdured across generations. Humans have probably believed that water is wet for a very long time, although this belief has no evolutionary history.
2008 July 11, Edouard Machery, “A Plea for Human Nature”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 21, number 3, London: Routledge, →DOI, page 327 - intransitivehuman sciencesTo exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism).
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