hris_partridge@csi.com&gt; wrote:

&gt;In the section - copied below - you suggest that the occurent/continuant
&gt;distinction cannot be accommodated in the 4-D view. As you are certainly
&gt;aware, if you start looking into this, things get even more murky.
&gt;
&gt;For example, it seems to me that this is because the 4-D view usually
&gt;includes a kind of materialism (or extensionalism) - i.e. that the 4-D
&gt;extension of object is the object (and so the 4-D extension is a principle
&gt;of identity). O