Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Peter Simons and Harr,R./Madden,E.H.

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
15261 Humeans can only explain change with continuity as successive replacement [Harré/Madden]
12838 Four-dimensional ontology has no change, since that needs an object, and time to pass [Simons]
12842 There are real relational changes, as well as bogus 'Cambridge changes' [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
12841 I don't believe in processes [Simons]
12836 Fans of process ontology cheat, since river-stages refer to 'rivers' [Simons]
8979 Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons]
8981 Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 3. Moments
12880 Moments are things like smiles or skids, which are founded on other things [Simons]
12881 A smiling is an event with causes, but the smile is a continuant without causes [Simons]
12882 A wave is maintained by a process, but it isn't a process [Simons]
12883 Moving disturbances are are moments which continuously change their basis [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
12840 I do not think there is a general identity condition for events [Simons]
8973 Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
15268 Humeans construct their objects from events, but we construct events from objects [Harré/Madden]
12839 Relativity has an ontology of things and events, not on space-time diagrams [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
15257 The induction problem fades if you work with things, rather than with events [Harré/Madden]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
12879 Independent objects can exist apart, and maybe even entirely alone [Simons]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / a. Fundamental reality
15300 Fundamental particulars can't change [Harré/Madden]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
12847 Mass nouns admit 'much' and 'a little', and resist 'many' and 'few'. [Simons]
15319 Hard individual blocks don't fix what 'things' are; fluids are no less material things [Harré/Madden]
12863 Mass terms (unlike plurals) are used with indifference to whether they can exist in units [Simons]
12862 Gold is not its atoms, because the atoms must be all gold, but gold contains neutrons [Simons]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
15320 Magnetic and gravity fields can occupy the same place without merging [Harré/Madden]
12858 Mixtures disappear if nearly all of the mixture is one ingredient [Simons]
12859 A mixture can have different qualities from its ingredients. [Simons]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
15318 Gravitational and electrical fields are, for a materialist, distressingly empty of material [Harré/Madden]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
15267 Events are changes in states of affairs (which consist of structured particulars, with powers and relations) [Harré/Madden]