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Full Idea
Theorists who reject both events and facts as causal relata do so because the relata must be immanent in nature, and thus not facts, but also fine-grained and thus not events.
Gist of Idea
If causal relata must be in nature and fine-grained, neither facts nor events will do
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (The Metaphysics of Causation [2007], 1.2)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.7
A Reaction
Kim, however, offers a fine-grained account of events (as