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Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers

Varzi, Achille C.

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements.

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Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Philosophy
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November 25, 2014