Velleman says. "Just as a single point in space can contain only part of an extended object, a spatial part, so a single point in time can contain only part of a persisting object, a temporal part. The object fills time by having one temporal part after another, just as it fills space by having one spatial part next to another. An object that persists through time in this way is said to ..."

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The phrase "fills time by having one temporal part after another" suggests that the object persists through time, which is a key characteristic of perdurance. Endurance refers to an object existing at a particular moment in time, but not necessarily persisting through time. The other options, materialize and transport, are not relevant to the concept being described.

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