
Persistence
Kristie Miller(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 11. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-009-05600-7 (ISBN)
Description
Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. Persistence realism involves both a semantic claim, about what it would take for those sentences to be true, and an ontological claim about the way things are. According to persistence realism, given what it would take for persistence sentences to be true, and given the ontology of our world, often such sentences are true. According to persistence error-theory, they are not. This Element considers several different views about the conditions under which those sentences are true. It argues for a view on which it is relatively easy to vindicate persistence realism, because all it takes is for the world to be the way it seems to us. Thereby it argues for the view that relations of numerical identity, or of being-part-of-the-same-object, are neither necessary nor sufficient for persistence realism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
127 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-05600-7 (9781009056007)
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. What is Persistence; 3. Persistence Error-Theory; 4. Semantic Processionism; 5. Objections to Semantic Processionism; 6. Persistence Realism; 7. The Nature of Actual Processions; 8. Conclusion.