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Ideas for 'To be is to be the value of a variable..', 'Material Beings' and 'Events'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

8979	Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons]

8981	Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons]

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

8973	Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons]

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

17578

I reject talk of 'stuff', and treat it in terms of particles [Inwagen]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

17582

Singular terms can be vague, because they can contain predicates, which can be vague [Inwagen]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

10700

First- and second-order quantifiers are two ways of referring to the same things [Boolos]