Four-dimensionalists offer a unified picture of various puzzles about identity over time, including the puzzle of fission,
the puzzle of constitution and the puzzle of undetached parts. What unifies the four-dimensionalist approaches to these puzzles
is the possibility of temporal overlap—the possibility for distinct continuants to share a common temporal part, or stage.
I claim that the unified picture is inconsistent, if there are informative criteria of identity over time. I will show that
while temporal overlap is compatible with four-dimensionalist criteria of diachronic composition, temporal overlap is incompatible
with any four-dimensionalist criteria of diachronic identity.
Keywords Identity - Persistence - Four-dimensionalism - Composition - Time