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Ideas for 'Dissoi Logoi - on Double Arguments', 'Semantics for Propositional Attitudes' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

18914	Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]
	Full Idea: An alternative, and still controversial, extension of first-order logic is due to Donald Davidson, who allows for quantification over events.
	From: report of Donald Davidson (The Individuation of Events [1969]) by George Engelbretsen - Trees, Terms and Truth 3
	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.