entities ............................................................................................................. 13 2.3 Basic functions and relations ..................................................... 13 Parthood and Temporary Parthood ...................................................................................... 14 Dependence and Spatial Dependence ................................................................................... 14 Constitution .................................................................................................................. 15 Participation .................................................................................................................. 15 Quality inherence and quality value .................................................................................... 16 2.4 Further distinctions ................................................................ 16 Physical and non-physical endurants ................................................................................... 16 Amounts of matter ...................................................................................................... 16 Objects ..................................................................................................................... 16 Features .................................................................................................................... 16 Non-physical endurants and the agentive/non-agentive distinction ............................................ 17 Kinds of perdurants ......................................................................................................... 17 Kinds of quality .......................................................................................................

In the current debate on how ordinary objects persist through time, more than one philosopher has endorsed the following two theses: stage theory and diachronic universalism. In this paper, I would like to offer a solution to the problem (related to lingering properties) that Balashov poses to the joint acceptance of these theses. I will also offer a number of reasons why, even if it is not necessary to undermine Balashov‘s counterexamples, stage theorists can, without making their theory less appealing, reject Balashov‘s understanding of sorts, which plays a crucial role in his criticisms of stage universalism.

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