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Ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology' and 'Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]
	Full Idea: Events are not basic items in the universe; they should not be included in any fundamental ontology...all the truths about them are entailed by and explained and made true by truths that do not involve the event concept.
	From: Jonathan Bennett (Events and Their Names [1988], p.12), quoted by Peter Simons - Events 3.1
	A reaction: Given the variable time spans of events, their ability to coincide, their ability to contain no motion, their blatantly conventional component, and their recalcitrance to individuation, I say Bennett is right.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

2781	Realism says that most perceived objects exist, and have some of their perceived properties [Dancy,J]
	Full Idea: Realism in the theory of perception is that objects we perceive usually do exist, and retain some at least of the properties we perceive them as having.
	From: Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 10.2)