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Single Idea 4225
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Full Idea
My own preference is for a conception of events which reduces them to changes in the properties of or relations between things.
Gist of Idea
Events are changes in the properties of or relations between things
Source
E.J. Lowe (A Survey of Metaphysics [2002], p.245)
Book Ref
Lowe,E.J.: 'A Survey of Metaphysics' [OUP 2002], p.245
A Reaction
Changes of property and changes of relations are two very different things. Is a 'near miss' an event? If so, is any movement an event? If movement is relative, then so are events.
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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