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    It is not the case that The four-dimensionalist framework of Lewis and Sider allows that Adam is a temporal stage shared by two distinct person-worms that overlap at the pre-twinning segment.

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    • 1.If two person-worms genuinely differ as distinct entities, sharing an identical stage seems to violate the distinctness relation—identical parts entail identity.
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    • 2.The notion of 'overlapping' worms at a stage requires clarification: either stages are mereological parts (making overlap impossible) or the framework is obscure about composition.
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    • 3.This solution may merely relabel the fission problem rather than solve it—saying 'two worms share Adam' doesn't explain which worm Adam is before divergence.
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    • 1.Four-dimensionalism treats persons as extended entities in time, making temporal overlap of distinct worms at shared stages coherent and metaphysically legitimate.
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    • 2.Pre-twinning identity conditions can be preserved while post-twinning divergence creates new person-worms, elegantly handling fission cases without denying continuity.
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    • 3.This framework avoids the counterintuitive requirement that a person must be wholly distinct at every temporal slice, allowing stage-sharing between numerically different continuants.
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