Exdurantism
Exdurantism is a philosophical position in the metaphysics of time that addresses how objects and persons persist through time. It is typically presented as an alternative to endurantism, which holds that objects are wholly present at each moment, and perdurantism, which treats objects as extended across time by successive temporal parts. Exdurantism proposes that persistence arises from networks of relations among discrete exdurational stages rather than from intrinsic continual presence or from a four-dimensional time worm.
According to exdurantism, an object at a given time is a node within a sequence of stages,
Variants of exdurantism distinguish between strong and weak forms. Strong exdurantism emphasizes tight coupling and coherence
Critics raise questions about the coherence of stage boundaries, the ontological cost of positing numerous relational
Exdurantism remains a niche view within contemporary philosophy of time, discussed mainly in the context of