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    It is not the case that Endurantism cannot account for the possibility of time travel

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    • Time travel scenarios generate contradictions for objects that are wholly present at each time they exist
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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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