Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Menedemus, PG and David Lewis

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

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You can't deny temporary intrinsic properties by saying the properties are relations (to times) [Lewis]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

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The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis]

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Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis]

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Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis]

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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

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An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis]