ABSTRACT
According to McTaggart, the conception of temporal reality as a series of events that are permanently related as earlier/later than each otherthe B series is a conception of a changeless reality and consequently not a conception of a temporal reality. Another way to argue that change can be a variation over time in the qualities of the self-same object is to argue that all properties are relational. Endurantism represents what has been the common sense view of persistence at least since Aristotle described it in terms of the body which is carried along both in time and in space. According to the first objection, the variation in the properties of a thing over time is due to a causal factor, whereas variation between the spatial parts of a thing is not. Mellor's definitions and distinctions between things, facts, events, and changes, in fact merely serve to further establish their interdependence.
