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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Logical Syntax of Language' and 'Person and Object'

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

15832	Events are states of affairs that occur at certain places and times [Chisholm]
	Full Idea: We will restrict events to those states of affairs which occur at certain places and times.
	From: Roderick Chisholm (Person and Object [1976], 4.6)
	A reaction: If I say 'the bomb may explode sometime', that doesn't seem to refer to an event. Philosophers like Chisholm bowl along, defining left, right and centre, and never seem to step back from their system and ask obvious critical questions.