In Writing the Book of the World (2011) Theodore Sider claims that on the
fundamental level of reality there are no objects composed of parts, which
makes his view a version of mereological nihilism. However, in his previous
book entitled Four-Dimensionalism (2001), Sider endorses mereological
universalism, the thesis that every class of objects has a mereological
fusion, i.e. that there exists an additional object containing those objects
as parts, which plays a crucial role in his argument from vagueness in
favour of perdurantism, that is the thesis of the existence of temporal
parts of material objects. In this paper I will investigate whether Sider
can still be a perdurantist in spite of his latest commitment to
mereological nihilism.