Endurantism's 'wholly present' relation presupposes a privileged present that eternalism structurally eliminates, making the combination incoherent at the level of foundational ontology, as Sider argues in 'Four-Dimensionalism'.
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The assumption that the current moment ('now') is special or objectively real in a way that past and future moments are not.
Ted Sider(as a key philosopher cited in this debate)
A contemporary American philosopher known for developing and defending four-dimensionalism, a theory about how objects exist in time.
eternalism(Philosophy of language / truth-conditional semantics)
The negation of temporalism; the view that propositions do not vary in truth-value across times.
four-dimensionalism(metaphysics of identity and time)
The philosophical view that objects (including people) are made up of temporal parts or stages, just like a physical object has spatial parts; you exist across time like a movie reel exists as many frames.
wholly present(Described as the implicit rationale behind ordinary concepts of objects, contrasted with the perdurantist view that objects have temporal parts.)
An object is wholly present at a time if the entire object, not merely a temporal stage or part of it, exists at that time.