Full Idea
The criticism most frequently levelled against Kim's theory is that it results in an unacceptable plurality of finely differentiated events, because of the requirement for identity of the constituent property.
Clarification
See Idea 8974 for Kim's theory
Gist of Idea
Kim's theory results in too many events
Source
comment on Jaegwon Kim (Events as property exemplifications [1976]) by Peter Simons - Events 4.4
Book Reference
'The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics', ed/tr. Loux,M /Zimmerman,D [OUP 2005], p.375
A Reaction
This may mean that the Battle of Waterloo was several trillion events, which seems daft to the historian, but it doesn't to the physicist. A cannon firing is indeed an accumulation of lots of little events.
Related Idea
Idea 8974 Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons]