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    It is not the case that Stage theorists like Ted Sider argue that counterpart relations across times can ground persistence claims without requiring numerically identical objects to endure.

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    • 1.If I am merely a counterpart to my future self, not numerically identical, then I have no special reason to care about future consequences.
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    • 2.Counterpart relations require a separate 'relation' to ground persistence, but relations themselves need explanation and justification.
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    • 3.Stage theory makes persistence claims conventional rather than metaphysically substantive, undermining their explanatory power.
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    • 1.Counterpart relations avoid the puzzle of how one object can be wholly present at multiple times with different properties.
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    • 2.Stage theory explains personal identity over time without requiring immaterial souls or four-dimensional worms.
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    • 3.Counterpart relations align with physics: objects are temporal stages related by causal continuity, not numerically identical.
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