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Ideas for 'Individuals without Sortals', 'Recent Debates on the A Priori' and 'Concepts of supervenience'

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

17520	Events do not have natural boundaries, and we have to set them [Ayers]
	Full Idea: In order to know which event has been ostensively identified by a speaker, the auditor must know the limits intended by the speaker. ...Events do not have natural boundaries.
	From: M.R. Ayers (Individuals without Sortals [1974], 'Concl')
	A reaction: He distinguishes events thus from natural objects, where the world, to a large extent, offers us the boundaries. Nice point.

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

3536	Supervenient properties must have matching base properties [Kim]
	Full Idea: Each supervenient property necessarily has a coextensive property in the base family.
	From: Jaegwon Kim (Concepts of supervenience [1984], §5)
	A reaction: This is presumably the minimum requirement for a situation of supervenience. How do you decide which property is the 'base' property? Do we just mean that the base causes the other, but not vice versa?