| 1 Preface and introduction | 9 |
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| 2 The basic description of Model T | 15 |
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| 2.1 Mathematical representation | 21 |
| 3 Ontological categories for T | 23 |
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| 3.1 Basic universals | 23 |
| 3.2 Individuals which are basic or immediately derivative | 26 |
| 3.2.1 Spatial configurations | 26 |
| 3.2.1.1 Spatial parthood for spatial configurations | 29 |
| 3.2.2 Temporal configurations | 30 |
| 3.2.2.1 Direction and relative position for temporal configurations | 33 |
| 3.3 States of affairs | 39 |
| 3.3.1 Time-dependent but not time-thematic states of affairs | 40 |
| 3.3.1.1 Additional perspectives on not time-dependent, but time-thematic states of affairs | 47 |
| 3.3.2 Time-dependent and time-thematic states of affairs – and the nature of indexical time-thematicness | 48 |
| 3.4 Events as sequences of momentary states | 52 |
| 3.4.1 Events and states of affairs | 55 |
| 3.5 Basic tropes | 58 |
| 3.5.1 Basic spatiotemporal tropes as fundamental or derivative entities | 60 |
| 3.6 Worlds and modal positions | 64 |
| 4 Uniformity and diversiformity of histories and of maximally composite momentary states | 67 |
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| 4.1 Regularities of histories | 73 |
| 4.1.1 Regularities and laws (of nature) | 77 |
| 4.2 Uniformity, regularities, laws, and actuality | 81 |
| 5 Actuality and other modalities for T | 83 |
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| 5.1 Temporal and historical relativization of statements about T | 83 |
| 5.1.1 The varieties of historical relativization | 89 |
| 5.2 The plurality of actuality-predicates, basic and defined | 93 |
| 5.2.1 Actuality – in two ways non-relativized | 98 |
| 5.2.2 Actualization** and what is behind it | 108 |
| 5.3 Possibility and necessity for T | 116 |
| 5.3.1 History-relative and/or time-relative necessity and possibility for T | 124 |
| 5.4 The immanent and transcendent perspective on modality and time | 132 |
| 6 The physics of H* | 137 |
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| 6.1 The first two of the laws for T/the laws of H* | 139 |
| 6.2 The Third Law for T and the supervenience of atomic higher continuants relative to H* | 142 |
| 6.3 Democriteanism and four-dimensionalism for H* and the transhistorical identity of atomic higher continuants | 153 |
| 6.3.1 Four-dimensionalist counterpartism | 163 |
| 6.3.2 Four-dimensionalism without counterpartism | 165 |
| 6.4 Final determinations on atomic material objects | 166 |
| 6.4.1 The strong essentiality of origin for atomic material objects | 169 |
| 6.5 Candidates for further laws for T, and more on the laws for T | 171 |
| 6.5.1 The Candidate Fifth Law for T | 179 |
| 6.5.2 The regulation of collision | 186 |
| 6.5.3 The Candidate Sixth Law for T | 194 |
| 6.6 The canon of the laws for T | 199 |
| 6.7 The initial state | 204 |
| 7 Five T-metaphysical issues and the metaphysics of Reality | 211 |
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| 7.1 The completion of the rules of ACTUHIST | 211 |
| 7.2 Physicalism and dualism with regard to Model T | 219 |
| 7.3 T-immanent and T-transcendent causation | 229 |
| 7.4 Composite T-material objects | 246 |
| 7.4.1 Typical material objects in Reality and their T-analogues | 258 |
| 7.4.2 Objections to taking the sequential T-material* objects as the Tanalogues of the typical material objects | 264 |
| 7.4.3 The transtemporal and transhistorical identity of T-material* objects | 266 |
| 7.5 T-metaphysical teleology | 268 |
| Index of concepts and principles | 273 |
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