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Ideas for 'Confessions', 'De Ente et Essentia (Being and Essence)' and 'Events'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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I prefer a lack of form to mean non-existence, than to think of some quasi-existence [Augustine]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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If affirmative propositions express being, we affirm about what is absent [Aquinas]

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

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The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis]

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Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis]

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Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis]

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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis]

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

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An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies

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Three main questions seem to be whether a thing is, what it is, and what sort it is [Augustine]