perdure
verbUK /pəˈd͡ʒʊə̯/ · US /pɚˈdʊɹ/
1
To continue to exist, last or endure, especially for a great length of time.
- Saying that a trait has an evolutionary history is to say something stronger than the fact that it has perdured across generations. Humans have probably believed that water is wet for a very long time, although this belief has no evolutionary history.2008 July 11, Edouard Machery, “A Plea for Human Nature”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 21, number 3, London: Routledge, →DOI, page 327:
2
Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences To exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism).
- Derived terms
- perdurability, perduringly