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020			_a9781402052569 _9978-1-4020-5256-9
024	7		_a10.1007/1-4020-5256-1 _2doi
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082	0	4	_a110 _223
100	1		_aMiller, Kristie Lyn. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIssues In Theoretical Diversity _h[electronic resource] : _bPersistence, Composition, and Time / _cby Kristie Lyn Miller.
264		1	_aDordrecht : _bSpringer Netherlands, _c2006.
300			_aXIV, 258 p. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aPhilosophical Studies Series ; _v106
505	0		_aWhat is Metaphysical Equivalence? -- The Puzzles of Persistence -- Defining Our Terms -- Issues of Composition -- The Metaphysical Equivalence of Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism -- The Metaphysical Equivalence of Non-Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism -- Travelling in Time -- Empirical Equivalence and Special Relativity.
520			_aOur world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks. But in virtue of what do a bunch of little objects get to compose some bigger object, and how does that bigger object persist through time? This book aims to answer these questions, but it does so by looking at accounts of composition and persistence through a new methodological lens. It asks the question: what does it take for two theories to be genuinely different, and how can we know whether what seems like metaphysical disagreement is really just semantic disagreement? By offering a framework within which to explore issues of theoretical diversity, this book provides a novel way of thinking about the inter-relationship between composition and persistence. Ultimately, it argues for a new way of thinking about these issues, a way that does not preserve the standard theoretical dichotomies between four-dimensionalist theories on the one hand, and three-dimensionalist theories on the other.
650		0	_aPhilosophy.
650		0	_aMetaphysics.
650		0	_aOntology.
650		0	_aPhilosophy and science.
650	1	4	_aPhilosophy.
650	2	4	_aMetaphysics.
650	2	4	_aOntology.
650	2	4	_aPhilosophy of Science.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781402052552
830		0	_aPhilosophical Studies Series ; _v106
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5256-1
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950			_aHumanities, Social Sciences and Law (Springer-11648)
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