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Ideas for 'Metaphysics: the logical approach', 'Model Theory' and 'Lectures on Aesthetics'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

3310	If slowness is a property of walking rather than the walker, we must allow that events exist [Benardete,JA]
	Full Idea: Once we conceded that Tom can walk slowly or quickly, and that the slowness and quickness is a property of the walking and not of Tom, we can hardly refrain from quantifying over events (such as 'a walking') in our ontology.
	From: José A. Benardete (Metaphysics: the logical approach [1989], Ch. 6)

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

12793	Early pre-Socratics had a mass-noun ontology, which was replaced by count-nouns [Benardete,JA]
	Full Idea: With their 'mass-noun' ontologies, the early pre-Socratics were blind to plurality ...but the count-noun ontologists came to dominate the field forever after.
	From: José A. Benardete (Metaphysics: the logical approach [1989], Ch. 6)
	A reaction: The mass-nouns are such things as earth, air, fire and water. This is a very interesting historical observation (cited by Laycock). Our obsession with identity seems tied to formal logic. There is a whole other worldview waiting out there.