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Ideas for 'Matter and Memory', 'The Language of Morals' and 'Parts'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
21846 Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
12838 Four-dimensional ontology has no change, since that needs an object, and time to pass [Simons]
12842 There are real relational changes, as well as bogus 'Cambridge changes' [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
12841 I don't believe in processes [Simons]
12836 Fans of process ontology cheat, since river-stages refer to 'rivers' [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 3. Moments
12882 A wave is maintained by a process, but it isn't a process [Simons]
12880 Moments are things like smiles or skids, which are founded on other things [Simons]
12883 Moving disturbances are are moments which continuously change their basis [Simons]
12881 A smiling is an event with causes, but the smile is a continuant without causes [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
12840 I do not think there is a general identity condition for events [Simons]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
12839 Relativity has an ontology of things and events, not on space-time diagrams [Simons]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
12879 Independent objects can exist apart, and maybe even entirely alone [Simons]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16050 The goodness of a picture supervenes on the picture; duplicates must be equally good [Hare]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
12847 Mass nouns admit 'much' and 'a little', and resist 'many' and 'few'. [Simons]
12862 Gold is not its atoms, because the atoms must be all gold, but gold contains neutrons [Simons]
12863 Mass terms (unlike plurals) are used with indifference to whether they can exist in units [Simons]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
12859 A mixture can have different qualities from its ingredients. [Simons]
12858 Mixtures disappear if nearly all of the mixture is one ingredient [Simons]