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Single Idea 12670
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Full Idea
We may define a physical event as any change of distribution of energy in any of its forms.
Gist of Idea
A physical event is any change of distribution of energy
Source
Brian Ellis (The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism [2009], 2)
Book Ref
Ellis,Brian: 'The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism' [Acument 2009], p.39
A Reaction
This seems to result in an awful lot of events. My own (new this morning) definition is: 'An event is a process which can be individuated in time'. Now you just have to work out what a 'process' is, but that's easier than understanding an 'event'.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[explaining happenings in terms of another mode of existence]:
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23211
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Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances
[Nietzsche]
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8205
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Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time
[Quine]
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12670
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A physical event is any change of distribution of energy
[Ellis]
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3747
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Events are fast changes which are of interest to us
[O'Connor]
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8978
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Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology
[Bennett]
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8278
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The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular
[Lowe on Davidson]
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8976
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If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract
[Simons on Kim]
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8975
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Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements
[Kim, by Simons]
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8974
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Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time
[Kim, by Simons]
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8977
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Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties
[Simons on Kim]
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8980
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Kim's theory results in too many events
[Simons on Kim]
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10369
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How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated
[Kim, by Schaffer,J]
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4779
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For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times
[Kim, by Psillos]
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15257
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The induction problem fades if you work with things, rather than with events
[Harré/Madden]
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15564
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An event is a property of a unique space-time region
[Lewis]
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9413
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An event is a change in or to an object
[Lombard, by Mumford]
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8518
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Events are trope-sequences, in which tropes replace one another
[Campbell,K]
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4220
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Maybe an event is the exemplification of a property at a time
[Lowe]
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4225
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Events are changes in the properties of or relations between things
[Lowe]
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