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All the ideas for 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense', 'Events' and 'Necessary Existents'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

8979	Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons]

8981	Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons]

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

8973	Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

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Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]