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The Category of Occurrent Continuants
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Date Issued
2016-01-01
Date Available
2018-01-01T02:00:11Z
Abstract
Arguing first that the best way to understand what a continuant is is as something that primarily has its properties at a time rather than atemporally, the paper then defends the idea that there are occurrent continuants. These are things that were, are or will be happening – like someone reading or my writing this paper for instance. The prevailing philosophical view of process is as something that is referred to with mass nouns and not count nouns. This has mistakenly encouraged the view that the only way to think of process is as the stuff of events and has obscured the possibility of thinking of processes as continuants.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal
Mind
Volume
124
Issue
496
Start Page
41
End Page
62
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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