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Single Idea 12840
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Full Idea
Like Anscombe (1979) I do not think there is such a creature as a general identity condition for events.
Gist of Idea
I do not think there is a general identity condition for events
Source
Peter Simons (Parts [1987], 4.1 n1)
Book Ref
Simons,Peter: 'Parts: a Study in Ontology' [OUP 1987], p.128
A Reaction
My working definition of an event is 'any part of a process which can be individuated'. This leaves you trying to define a process, and define individuate, and then to realise that individuation is not an objective matter.
The
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with the same theme
[what we should take events to consist of]:
15832
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Events are states of affairs that occur at certain places and times
[Chisholm]
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8439
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Maybe each event has only one possible causal history
[Bennett]
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8440
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Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it
[Bennett]
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7771
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We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events
[Davidson, by Lycan]
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8860
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Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events
[Yablo on Davidson]
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17520
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Events do not have natural boundaries, and we have to set them
[Ayers]
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15561
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The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation
[Lewis]
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15565
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Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence
[Lewis]
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15566
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Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts
[Lewis]
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15567
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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges
[Lewis]
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3310
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If slowness is a property of walking rather than the walker, we must allow that events exist
[Benardete,JA]
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8270
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Events are changes or non-changes in properties and relations of persisting objects
[Lowe]
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4219
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Numerically distinct events of the same kind (like two battles) can coincide in space and time
[Lowe]
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8973
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Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships
[Simons]
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6143
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Prolonged events don't seem to endure or exist at any particular time
[Merricks]
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12840
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I do not think there is a general identity condition for events
[Simons]
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14541
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Events are essentially changes; property exemplifications are just states of affairs
[Mumford/Anjum]
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