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All the ideas for 'Dthat', 'Possible Worlds' and 'Events'

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9 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

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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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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]

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]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

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Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

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Are causal descriptions part of the causal theory of reference, or are they just metasemantic? [Kaplan, by Schaffer,J]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis]