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Ideas for 'Axiomatic Theories of Truth (2005 ver)', 'The Metaphysics of Modality' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

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Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

14004

We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

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

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Vagueness problems arise from applying sharp semantics to vague languages [Forbes,G]