 Less radically, endurantists may claim that objects change by standing in different relations to different times. There is no absolute fact of the matter regarding the ripeness of the banana: instead, the banana bears the being-unripe-on relation to Monday, and the being-overripe-on relation to Friday.  (Alternatively, perhaps the banana possesses two compatible properties, being-unripe-on-Monday, and being-overripe-on-Friday.) There’s no mystery in an object which bears apparently incompatible relations to different things: you are bigger than the Mona Lisa, and smaller than the Louvre, but metaphysicians don’t puzzle over how you can be both bigger-than and smaller-than. Those who oppose this relational view of changeable properties claim that it’s just too relational: the banana seems to lose all its intrinsic nature. We may also worry that, as with the temporal parts account, it’s not clear whether anything really changes on this picture: the banana always stands in the same relations to the various times.