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Single Idea 10369

[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events ]

Full Idea

How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated.

Gist of Idea

How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated

Source

report of Jaegwon Kim (Events as property exemplifications [1976]) by Jonathan Schaffer - The Metaphysics of Causation 1.2

Book Ref

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.7

A Reaction

I don't actually buy the idea that an event could just be an 'exemplification'. Change seems to be required, and processes, or something like them, must be mentioned. Degrees of fine-graining sound good, though, for processes too.

The 19 ideas with the same theme [explaining happenings in terms of another mode of existence]:

23211 Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances [Nietzsche]
8205 Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine]
12670 A physical event is any change of distribution of energy [Ellis]
3747 Events are fast changes which are of interest to us [O'Connor]
8978 Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]
8278 The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]
8976 If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract [Simons on Kim]
8975 Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements [Kim, by Simons]
8974 Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons]
8977 Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties [Simons on Kim]
8980 Kim's theory results in too many events [Simons on Kim]
10369 How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated [Kim, by Schaffer,J]
4779 For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times [Kim, by Psillos]
15257 The induction problem fades if you work with things, rather than with events [Harré/Madden]
15564 An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis]
9413 An event is a change in or to an object [Lombard, by Mumford]
8518 Events are trope-sequences, in which tropes replace one another [Campbell,K]
4220 Maybe an event is the exemplification of a property at a time [Lowe]
4225 Events are changes in the properties of or relations between things [Lowe]