Single Idea 8558

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems]

Full Idea

There is a system of internally related concepts containing the notion of a property, the notion of a causal power, the concept of an event, the concept of similarity, and the concept of a persisting substance.

Gist of Idea

One system has properties, powers, events, similarity and substance

Source

Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §07)

Book Reference

Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.222


A Reaction

A nice example of a modern metaphysical system, one which I find fairly congenial. His notion of events is Kim's, which involves his properties. The persisting substance is the one I am least clear about.