I only recently learned this word: perdurantism.
It means the philosophical position that holds that an object can be defined as having parts by virtue of their distance from one another in time.
We might speak of my old shoes and I may say regretfully, "Ah, they were great when they were new shoes, before I wore out the sole." A perdurantist (like Ted Sider) will speak of the old shoes as a different "part" of the pair from the new shoes, just as one speaks of the heel as a different part from the tongue. Separation by time is not distinct from separation by space.
The contrary view is endurantism: it rejects the notion that the now-shoe is a part of the shoe. It holds the shoes are fully present in the now just as they were fully present in the then.
Just a little vocabulary lesson I've given myself. Happy to have you listening in....
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