9 ideas
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
17722 | The concept 'red' is tied to what actually individuates red things [Peacocke] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |
4398 | An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos] |