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• @article{Wahlberg2008-HANCIB,pages = {235--239},year = {2008},journal = {Metaphysica},author = {Tobias Hansson Wahlberg},number = {2},title = {Can I Be an Instantaneous Stage and yet Persist Through Time?},publisher = {Springer Netherlands},volume = {9},abstract = {An alternative to the standard endurance/perdurance accounts of persistence has recently been developed: the stage theory (Sider, T. Four-Dimensionalism: an Ontology of Persistence and Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; Hawley, K. How Things Persist. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). According to this theory, a persisting object is identical with an instantaneous stage (temporal part). On the basis of Leibniz's Law, I argue that stage theorists either have to deny the alleged identity (i.e., give up their central thesis) or hold that stages are both instantaneous and continuants. I subsequently show that, although stage theory is flexible enough to accommodate the latter claim, the cost for accommodating it is an excessive proliferation of persistence concepts}}@

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• Can I Be an Instantaneous Stage and yet Persist Through Time?

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• 2008

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