10 ideas
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15201 | That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
20441 | An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |
22899 | 'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN] |