A Permanent Being

The paper  rst argues that Permanentism appropriately captures a sense of eternity that underwrites the most crucial aspects of Severino's notion of an eternal being, namely that nothing ever comes into existence and nothing ever disappears into nothingness. From a permanentist per- spective Severino worries that positing things that disappears into noth- ingness as it were, requires envisioning a \time of the absurd" as he puts it: a time where something becomes nothing. The paper then goes on to suggest a way of reformulating such claims that is available within a truly permanentist framework. Such a way relies on a distinction between the notions of existence and existence-at-a-region.