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13.2 When actualities at points in ordinary space and time

Unchanging Continuant (Substance)

is a separable propensity field. It endures unchanging between two actual events.

Changeable Continuant (Substance)

is a succession of `unchanging continuants' such that its adjacent and successive stages satisfy that:

1.: there is some event over which the two `unchanging continuants', as propensity fields, are extensively continuous with each other. This event would then be the product of the earlier continuant and the cause of the later one.
2.: these two continuants have the same `substantial form' even though they do not extend over the same sets of places.

Prof Ian Thompson
2003-02-25

Author: I.J. Thompson (except as stated)