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    Challenges→Presentism compels endurantism

    Presentism entails only that whatever exists exists wholly in the present, which is equally satisfied by an object having no temporal parts as by an object being a single present stage.

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    Key Terms

    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Present stage(mentioned as an alternative to objects having temporal parts)
    A snapshot or slice of an object as it exists right now, without any parts stretching into the past or future.
    Temporal parts(Four-dimensionalist solution to the problem of change)
    Distinct stages of a temporally extended object, such that the puppy Oscar and the old gray-muzzled Oscar are distinct parts of the whole Oscar
    presentism(Philosophy of time)
    The view that, necessarily, it is always true that only present objects exist; no objects exist in time without being present

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