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[from 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' by E.J. Lowe, in 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events ]

Full Idea

My own broadly Aristotelian view is that events are changes (and unchanges) in the properties and relations of persisting objects.

Gist of Idea

Events are changes or non-changes in properties and relations of persisting objects

Source

E.J. Lowe (The Possibility of Metaphysics [1998], 4.4)

Book Reference

Lowe,E.J.: 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' [OUP 2001], p.97


A Reaction

This needs an account of what it is that persists, and the philosophers' (but not physicists') concept of 'substance' fills this role. It is rather hard to give identity-conditions for an event if it is an 'unchange'. How would you count such events?