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Full Idea
If Kim's events are just the ordered triple of
Gist of Idea
If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract
Source
comment on Jaegwon Kim (Events as property exemplifications [1976]) by Peter Simons - Events 2.1
Book Ref
'The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics', ed/tr. Loux,M /Zimmerman,D [OUP 2005], p.365
A Reaction
You might reply that the object, and maybe the attribute, are concrete, and the time is natural, but the combination really is an abstraction, even though it is located (like the equator). Where is the set of my books located?