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| Continuants: temporally extended entities as opposed to events or occurrences. There is a debate about whether continuants themselves can have temporal parts. See also endurantism, perdurantism, ontology, person, four-dimensionalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Uwe Meixner on Continuants - Dictionary of Arguments
I 49 Def Continuant/Contuants/Meixner: continuants are singular individuals with a time duration that have at most spatial parts - no temporal parts! Therefore no accidents. >Accidens, >Individuals, >Objects. ((s) then no change is possible). Identity in time is given anyway, no question about it is possible. - Then a continuant is no individual which has these temporal parts, the accidents. Cf. >Temporal identity, >Change, >Motion, >Person._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Mei I U. Meixner Einführung in die Ontologie Darmstadt 2004 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19