Endurants and Occurrents

While some philosophers as described in sep-process-philosophy believe, that all individuals, all entities of the world have temporal parts, GOL distinguishes between endurants and occurrants, or more recently between presentials, persistants and processes. We will use both notions in this thesis.

Endurant are individuals that are wholly existent at a time boundary. Endurants have no temporal parts. An example may be a physical object, like a ball. A ball is wholly present at a point in time, a time boundary. It persists through time as a universal with instances at time boundaries. Those universals are called persistants.

Processes, or occurrents, are individuals that have temporal parts.