The central aim of this paper is to use a particular view about how the laws of nature govern the evolution of our universe in order to develop and evaluate the two main competing options in the metaphysics of persistence, namely endurantism and perdurantism. We begin by motivating the view that our laws of nature dictate not only qualitative facts about the future, but also which objects will instantiate which qualitative properties. We then show that both traditional doctrines in the metaphysics of persistence must take on surprising further commitments in order to vindicate our universe being law-governed in this strong sense. For example, we argue that endurantists should adopt a particular version of monism, and that perdurantists should adopt a qualitativist doctrine that dispenses with all individuals at the fundamental level.

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本文的中心目标是使用关于自然法则如何支配我们宇宙演化的特定观点，以发展和评估持久性形而上学中的两个主要竞争选项，即持久性和持久性。我们首先激发这样一种观点，即我们的自然法则不仅决定了关于未来的定性事实，而且还决定了哪些对象将实例化哪些定性属性。然后，我们表明，持久性形而上学中的两种传统学说都必须承担令人惊讶的进一步承诺，以证明我们的宇宙在这种强烈意义上是受法律管辖的。例如，我们认为持久主义者应该采用一种特定版本的一元论，而持久主义者应该采用一种在基本层面上摒弃所有个体的定性主义学说。