Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence

What is persistence? This is the most general question in this dissertation. According to current standard theories of persistence (i.e. endurantism, perdurantism, and exdurantism), an object persists by 3-D objects being located or existing at more than one time. That is, they understand persistenc...

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Main Author: Aoyama, Shinya
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49683/
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description What is persistence? This is the most general question in this dissertation. According to current standard theories of persistence (i.e. endurantism, perdurantism, and exdurantism), an object persists by 3-D objects being located or existing at more than one time. That is, they understand persistence in terms of location along a fourth dimension. In this dissertation, I offer a new alternative framework for persistence, which is based on the Flux-first view proposed by Stephen Barker. In this new idea, persistence is not connected with locations long the fourth dimension. Rather, it is understood in terms of irreducible transition along the fourth dimension. That is, a concrete object persists not by being located at more than one time but by irreducibly transiting along the fourth dimension.
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spelling nottingham-496832025-02-28T13:59:55Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49683/ Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence Aoyama, Shinya What is persistence? This is the most general question in this dissertation. According to current standard theories of persistence (i.e. endurantism, perdurantism, and exdurantism), an object persists by 3-D objects being located or existing at more than one time. That is, they understand persistence in terms of location along a fourth dimension. In this dissertation, I offer a new alternative framework for persistence, which is based on the Flux-first view proposed by Stephen Barker. In this new idea, persistence is not connected with locations long the fourth dimension. Rather, it is understood in terms of irreducible transition along the fourth dimension. That is, a concrete object persists not by being located at more than one time but by irreducibly transiting along the fourth dimension. 2018-07-16 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49683/1/Persistence%20as%20Transition.pdf Aoyama, Shinya (2018) Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Persistence Time Concrete Reality Dynamicity Transition
spellingShingle Persistence
Time
Concrete Reality
Dynamicity
Transition
Aoyama, Shinya
Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
title Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
title_full Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
title_fullStr Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
title_full_unstemmed Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
title_short Persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
title_sort persistence as transition: a new perspective on persistence
topic Persistence
Time
Concrete Reality
Dynamicity
Transition
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49683/