How do ordinary objects persist through time and across possible worlds? How do they manage to have their temporal and modal properties? These are the questions

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Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other

Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persis

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