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    Challenges→Endurantism can account for time travel

    Sider (2001) argues that any endurantist attempt to relativize properties to times collapses under scenarios where a single enduring entity occupies non-linear temporal paths, producing contradictory intrinsic property attributions with no coherent resolution.

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    Endurantism(Contrasted with views that posit temporal parts)
    The view that things are wholly present whenever they exist
    Non-linear temporal paths(as a test case for philosophical theories)
    A hypothetical scenario where an object's existence doesn't follow a simple straight line through time, but instead jumps around or loops in ways that seem to violate normal time progression.
    Relativize properties to times(as an attempted solution to a philosophical problem)
    The idea of saying that an object's qualities (like color or shape) change depending on what time you're looking at—so something can be 'red at 2pm' and 'blue at 3pm' without contradiction.
    Sider (2001)(as a philosophical source being referenced)
    Theodore Sider is a contemporary philosopher who publishes work on metaphysics (the study of reality's basic nature). This citation refers to an argument he made in a 2001 publication.

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    Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.

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