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Single Idea 7771
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Full Idea
To deal with the truth conditions for some adverbs, Davidson introduced a domain of 'events', and made adverbs into adjectival predicates of events.
Gist of Idea
We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events
Source
report of Donald Davidson (The Logical Form of Action Sentences [1967]) by William Lycan - Philosophy of Language Ch.9
Book Ref
Lycan,William G.: 'Philosophy of Language' [Routledge 2000], p.144
A Reaction
This seems to be a striking case of a procedure of which I heartily disapprove - deriving you ontology from your semantics. Do all languages have adverbs?
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[what we should take events to consist of]:
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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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Events are essentially changes; property exemplifications are just states of affairs
[Mumford/Anjum]
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