Friend of partial endurance adds the claim that microphysical discoveries aside there is no reason to regard the spatial parts of persisting objects as perduring rather than enduring. In particular, arguments from intrinsic change provide no such reason. So he opts for partial endurance, not because our ordinary practice commits us to it, but because it is a metaphysical picture

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Friend of partial endurance adds the claim that microphysical discoveries aside there is no reason to regard the spatial parts of persisting objects as perduring rather than enduring. In particular, arguments from intrinsic change provide no such reason. So he opts for partial endurance, not because our ordinary practice commits us to it, but because it is a metaphysical picture

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friend of partial endurance adds the claim that microphysical discoveries aside there is no reason to regard the spatial parts of persisting objects as perduring rather than enduring. In particular, arguments from intrinsic change provide no such reason. So he opts for partial endurance, not because our ordinary practice commits us to it, but because it is a metaphysical picture

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