Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Brand Blanshard, E.J. Lowe and Stewart Cohen
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Change can be of composition (the component parts), or quality (properties), or substance [Lowe]
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Maybe particles are unchanging, and intrinsic change in things is their rearrangement [Lowe, by Lewis]
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Heraclitus says change is new creation, and Spinoza that it is just phases of the one substance [Lowe]
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Four theories of qualitative change are 'a is F now', or 'a is F-at-t', or 'a-at-t is F', or 'a is-at-t F' [Lowe, by PG]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Events are changes or non-changes in properties and relations of persisting objects [Lowe]
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Numerically distinct events of the same kind (like two battles) can coincide in space and time [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
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Maybe modern physics requires an event-ontology, rather than a thing-ontology [Lowe]
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Events are ontologically indispensable for singular causal explanations [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Events are changes in the properties of or relations between things [Lowe]
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Maybe an event is the exemplification of a property at a time [Lowe]
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