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Ideas for 'Causation', 'Thinking About Mechanisms' and 'The Science of Knowing (Wissenschaftslehre) [1st ed]'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

16554	Activities have place, rate, duration, entities, properties, modes, direction, polarity, energy and range [Machamer/Darden/Craver]
	Full Idea: Activities can be identified spatiotemporally, and individuated by rate, duration, and types of entity and property that engage in them. They also have modes of operation, directionality, polarity, energy requirements and a range.
	From: Machamer,P/Darden,L/Craver,C (Thinking About Mechanisms [2000], 3)
	A reaction: This is their attempt at making 'activity' one of the two central concepts of ontology, along with 'entity'. A helpful analysis. It just seems to be one way of slicing the cake.