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Single Idea 18914

[from 'The Individuation of Events' by Donald Davidson, in 5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification ]

Full Idea

An alternative, and still controversial, extension of first-order logic is due to Donald Davidson, who allows for quantification over events.

Gist of Idea

Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events

Source

report of Donald Davidson (The Individuation of Events [1969]) by George Engelbretsen - Trees, Terms and Truth 3

Book Reference

'The Old New Logic', ed/tr. Oderberg,David S. [MIT 2005], p.38


A Reaction

I'm suddenly thinking this is quite an attractive proposal. We need to quantify over facts, or states of affairs, or events, or some such thing, to talk about the world properly. Objects, predicates and sets/parts is too sparse. I like facts.

Related Idea

Idea 8348 If we don't assume that events exist, we cannot make sense of our common talk [Davidson]