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- Title
Modes of Extension: Comments on Kit Fine's ‘In Defence of Three-Dimensionalism’.
- Authors
Simons, Peter
- Abstract
The debate between 3- and 4-dimensionalists is one of the most lively and pervasive in current metaphysics. At stake is a glittering prize: the correct metaphysical analysis of material things and other objects commonly thought to persist in time by enduring. Since we count ourselves among such objects the outcome of the debate is of more than merely academic interest to us. Obviously the ramifications of the debate, even of the points raised by Kit Fine, go far beyond what I can discuss here, so I shall simply select some salient issues and comment on them from my own somewhat heterodox point of view.
- Subjects
METAPHYSICS; THREE-manifolds (Topology); THREE-dimensional imaging; FINE, Kit; DEBATE
- Publication
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2008, Vol 83, Issue 62, p17
- ISSN
1358-2461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1358246108000556