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    Supports→Endurantism cannot account for the possibility of time travel

    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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    • 1.Endurantism requires identity through time via strict numerical identity, not spatiotemporal continuity like perdurantism allows.
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    • 2.Modal operators quantify over possible worlds where distinct temporal stages occupy the same spacetime location simultaneously.
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    • 3.Strict identity prohibits one thing occupying a location in two distinct modal contexts, forcing collapse of coherent modal discourse.
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    • 1.Modal contexts needn't require actual co-location; they concern counterfactual scenarios where identity conditions differ logically.
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    • 2.Endurantists can distinguish temporal stages from modal counterparts, avoiding the co-location problem Sider's argument presupposes.
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    • 3.The argument conflates mereological composition across time with metaphysical identity across possible worlds—distinct logical frameworks.
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