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Single Idea 4779

[from 'Causes and Events: Mackie on causation' by Jaegwon Kim, in 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events ]

Full Idea

A dominant view, attributed mainly to Kim, is that events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times.

Gist of Idea

For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times

Source

report of Jaegwon Kim (Causes and Events: Mackie on causation [1971]) by Stathis Psillos - Causation and Explanation §2.6

Book Reference

Psillos,Stathis: 'Causation and Explanation' [Acumen 2002], p.79


A Reaction

The obvious thought is that we might not describe something as an 'event' just because a property was exemplified (seeing red?). And WWII was an event, but a bit more than a 'property exemplification'.