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'The Golden Bowl, and Lit as Moral Philosophy', 'On Denoting' and 'Events'
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis]
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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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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]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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Russell showed that descriptions may not have ontological commitment [Russell, by Linsky,B]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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The Theory of Description dropped classes and numbers, leaving propositions, individuals and universals [Russell, by Monk]
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