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    Lewis's 'personal time' solution requires distinct tempor... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Endurantism cannot account for the possibility of time travel

    Lewis's 'personal time' solution requires distinct temporal stages, presupposing perdurantist ontology rather than rescuing endurantism.

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    • 1.Lewis's solution treats temporal stages as fundamental ontological commitments, which is characteristic of perdurantism, not endurantism.
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    • 2.Endurantism requires objects to be wholly present at each moment; invoking distinct stages contradicts this core commitment.
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    • 3.Lewis's framework cannot preserve endurantist identity conditions while allowing temporal stage differentiation without covert perdurantist machinery.
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    • 1.Personal time indexing allows endurantists to distinguish experiences without ontological stages—relativity of simultaneity suffices.
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    • 2.Stage-talk can be merely notational convenience for enduring objects, not ontological commitment requiring perdurantism.
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    • 3.Lewis's solution preserves standard endurantist semantics; stages reduce to perspectival orderings, not metaphysical duplications.
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