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'Material Beings', 'Events' and 'Science and Method'
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons]
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Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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I reject talk of 'stuff', and treat it in terms of particles [Inwagen]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Singular terms can be vague, because they can contain predicates, which can be vague [Inwagen]
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