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Ideas for Stilpo, Peter Simons and Stuart Glennan
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19 ideas
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Four-dimensional ontology has no change, since that needs an object, and time to pass [Simons]
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There are real relational changes, as well as bogus 'Cambridge changes' [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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I don't believe in processes [Simons]
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Fans of process ontology cheat, since river-stages refer to 'rivers' [Simons]
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Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons]
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Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 3. Moments
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Moments are things like smiles or skids, which are founded on other things [Simons]
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A wave is maintained by a process, but it isn't a process [Simons]
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A smiling is an event with causes, but the smile is a continuant without causes [Simons]
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Moving disturbances are are moments which continuously change their basis [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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I do not think there is a general identity condition for events [Simons]
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Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
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Relativity has an ontology of things and events, not on space-time diagrams [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
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Independent objects can exist apart, and maybe even entirely alone [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Mass nouns admit 'much' and 'a little', and resist 'many' and 'few'. [Simons]
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Gold is not its atoms, because the atoms must be all gold, but gold contains neutrons [Simons]
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Mass terms (unlike plurals) are used with indifference to whether they can exist in units [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
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Mixtures disappear if nearly all of the mixture is one ingredient [Simons]
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A mixture can have different qualities from its ingredients. [Simons]
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