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    It is not the case that Endurantism can account for time travel

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    • 1.Time travel requires a traveler to exist at the same time twice, creating two simultaneous personal histories at a single moment.
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    • 2.Endurantism holds that a person is wholly present at each moment, leaving no theoretical resource to distinguish the 'earlier' from the 'later' self co-present at that moment.
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    • 3.Without distinguishing these co-present selves, endurantism cannot coherently represent the causal structure of the time traveler's personal history, as Lewis's 1976 analysis requires.
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    • 1.Endurantist accounts of persistence rely on relations to times, but time travel generates a branching external time versus personal time distinction that undermines standard relational strategies.
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    • 2.Sider (2001) argues that any endurantist attempt to relativize properties to times collapses under scenarios where a single enduring entity occupies non-linear temporal paths, producing contradictory intrinsic property attributions with no coherent resolution.
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    • Endurantist resources are sufficient to handle time travel scenarios
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