Persistence and spacetime

How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, or are they four-dimensional spacetime 'worms'? Balashov shows how the theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metap...

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Main Author: Balashov, Yuri
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010, 2010
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