Abstract
The chapter attempts to make the distinctions among the three modes of persistence—endurance, perdurance and exdurance—precise, starting with a limited set of notions. I begin by situating the distinctions in a generic spacetime framework. This requires, among other things, replacement of classical notions such as ‘temporal part’, ‘spatial part’, ‘moment of time’ and the like with their more appropriate spacetime counterparts. I then adapt the general definitions to Galilean and Minkowski spacetime and consider some illustrations. Finally, I respond to an objection to the way in which my generic spacetime framework is applied to the case of Minkowski spacetime.
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