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Single Idea 14760
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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Full Idea
Four-dimensionalism does not respect a deep difference between thing-talk and process-talk, because it tends to place events and things in the same ontological category.
Gist of Idea
Four-dimensionalism sees things and processes as belonging in the same category
Source
Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 6.1)
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.211
A Reaction
He then quotes Broad, Idea 14759. This idea is the best reason yet for being sympathetic to the four-dimensionalist view, because I think processes really must have a central place in any decent ontology.
Related Idea
Idea 14759
A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[accepting purposeful sequences of happenings as existents]:
13213
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All comings-to-be are passings-away, and vice versa
[Aristotle]
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15768
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An actuality is usually thought to be a process
[Aristotle]
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15389
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In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending
[Whitehead, by Simons]
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11092
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A river is a process, with stages; if we consider it as one thing, we are considering a process
[Quine]
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12683
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Objects and substances are a subcategory of the natural kinds of processes
[Ellis]
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22626
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Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances
[Rescher]
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16554
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Activities have place, rate, duration, entities, properties, modes, direction, polarity, energy and range
[Machamer/Darden/Craver]
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14760
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Four-dimensionalism sees things and processes as belonging in the same category
[Sider]
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8979
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Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events'
[Simons]
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8981
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Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns
[Simons]
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12836
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Fans of process ontology cheat, since river-stages refer to 'rivers'
[Simons]
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12841
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I don't believe in processes
[Simons]
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14947
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Any process can be described as transfer of measurable information
[Ladyman/Ross]
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23784
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Processes don't begin or end; they just change direction unexpectedly
[Williams,NE]
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23790
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Processes are either strings of short unchanging states, or continuous and unreducible events
[Williams,NE]
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14562
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A process is unified as an expression of a collection of causal powers
[Mumford/Anjum]
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19480
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Process philosophy places the dynamic nature of being at the centre of our theories
[Seibt]
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19479
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Reductionists identify processes by their 'owner', but tornadoes etc. are processes without owners
[Seibt]
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19481
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Traditionally small things add up to processes, but quantum mechanics reverses this
[Seibt]
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20468
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Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things
[Rovelli]
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22629
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Basic processes are said to be either physical, or organic, or psychological
[Ingthorsson]
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