Spatiotemporaland Spatial Particulars
Spatiotemporaland Spatial Particulars

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to offer a classification of particulars in terms oftheir relations to spatiotemporal and spatial regions. It begins with anexamination of spatiotemporal particulars, and then explores the extent towhich a parallel account can be offered of continuants, or spatial particularsthat can endure and change over time, assuming such particulars exist. Forevery spatial particular there are spatiotemporal particulars that can bedescribed as its life and parts thereof. But not every time-slice of aspatiotemporal particular yields a spatial region suitable for hosting acorresponding spatial particular. Events are spatiotemporal particularsthough not all spatiotemporal particulars are events. Objects and states arespatial particulars though not all spatial particulars are objects or states.Spatial and spatiotemporal particulars can be either bare regions, or thecontents or material contents of such regions, or property instantia-tions. Itis left open whether events are contents of regions, property instan-tiations,or both. But it is argued that objects are material contents of spa-tial regionswhile states of objects are property instantiations. Spatiotempo-ralparticulars can be changes or nonchanges. Events and states can beinstantaneous while objects cannot.

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