Abstract
In every day life we presuppose that indexical thoughts trigger actions: the agent has to believe that he himself / she herself is hic et nunc in the right position in order to realize his/her intentions. Under the reasons for actions and emotions we thus subsume not only intentions, information and knowledge, but indexical beliefs as well. For accepting indexical beliefs as true or false, however, we need an ontology with three-dimensional continuants/endurers. Continuants are serially determined and wholly present at each moment of their existence. A mere four-dimensional event-ontology without tensed facts might be a good ontological framework for scientific, impersonal explanations, but for the personal explanations of actions based on indexical thoughts it will not suffice. Persons are, thus, three-dimensional continuants (endurers).
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