hich occupies the same space
&gt; &gt; and time but is thought of as having stages instead of parts. The
&gt; &gt; formal definition is: anything that lasts for a time but is not a
&gt; &gt; continuant.
&gt; &gt; Note that an occurrent may have participants 'inside' it which are
&gt; &gt; continuants, such as the players in a football match.
&gt; &gt; In a 4-d ontology, a continuant is something whose spatiotemporal
&gt; &gt; extent is thought of as dividing into temporal stages roughly
&gt; &gt; perpendicu