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    Endurantism cannot account for the possibility of time travel

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    • 1.If a time traveler visits their own past, they must be wholly present at t1 twice simultaneously, violating endurantism's single-occupancy constraint.
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    • 2.Lewis's 'personal time' solution requires distinct temporal stages, presupposing perdurantist ontology rather than rescuing endurantism.
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    • 1.Endurantism individuates objects by their intrinsic properties at a time, making Young-Napoleon and Old-Napoleon at the same time a numerical contradiction.
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    • 2.Sider's argument in Four-Dimensionalism shows that modal contexts requiring co-location of distinct temporal counterparts collapse under endurantist identity criteria.
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    • Time travel scenarios generate contradictions for objects that are wholly present at each time they exist
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    Suggested Reading: Earlier discussions of temporal parts paid close attention to analogies and disanalogies between space and time: e.g. Taylor (1955), Meiland (1966); Butterfield (1985) reflects on these. Lombard (1999) and Brogaard (2000) argue that presentism is compatible with perdurantism, while Merricks (1995) and Hestevold and Carter (2002) argue that presentism compels endurantism. Benovsky (2009) takes an even-handed approach. Merricks (1995) and Hinchliff (1996) argue that eternalism r
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