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> **Persistence** · *Definition*
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> Existing across more than one time or through a change, whether by enduring, perduring, or another continuity relation.

*Persists*, *endures*, *perdures*, *remains*, *continues*: operators of persistence. *Persistence* is the generic category. Endurantism holds that a thing is wholly present at every moment of its existence; perdurantism holds that it persists by having temporal parts. The terms also appear in ordinary metaphysical prose to name what survives a transition. Heraclitus's river is the canonical case: a river persists while its water turns over, and the question of how it does so is what the endurantist / perdurantist split tries to resolve.


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