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Re: SUO: Re: Ballot Comment - 3D versus 4D.


Chris,

I mostly agree with you, except for the terminology:

> BTW I think endurantist and perdurantist are better terms than 3D and 4D as
> what is at stake is a view on what change is (see, for example, Chap 8 of my
> book).

I prefer 3D and 4D for the following reasons:

 1. They are immediately intelligible without a lot of further
    explanation.

 2. People can remember them.

 3. The nature of change, causality, location, etc., are all
    important issues, and the terms 3D and 4D leave those issues
    unstated (which at this point, I believe they should).

 4. The people who invented and promoted the en- and per- terms have
    some metaphysical axes to grind that I don't fully agree with.

John Sowa