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Ideas for 'To be is to be the value of a variable..', 'Causal Powers' and 'Lewis on Perdurance versus Endurance'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
Humeans can only explain change with continuity as successive replacement [Harré/Madden]
Maybe particles are unchanging, and intrinsic change in things is their rearrangement [Lowe, by Lewis]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
Humeans construct their objects from events, but we construct events from objects [Harré/Madden]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
The induction problem fades if you work with things, rather than with events [Harré/Madden]