CONTINUANTS AND TEMPORAL PARTS

• Authors: Martin Schmidt
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The four dimensional view of material objects and the idea of temporal parts are considered as two sides of the same coin known as worm theory. As it is argued, objects extended in space have spatial parts while temporally extended objects have temporal parts. The aim of the paper is to show that the notion of temporal part is frame relative and that its role in the ontology of four dimensional objects is often overestimated and misconceived by the defenders of four-dimensionalism.

Keywords

EN

RELATIVITY THEORY; TEMPORAL PARTS; FOUR-DIMENSION; SPACE; WORM THEORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 601 – 609

Contributors

author

Martin Schmidt

• Katedra filozofie FF UMB, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic