6 ideas
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] |
8973 | Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons] |
19494 | Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo] |
19493 | Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo] |
19392 | I don't recommend universal doubt; we constantly seek reasons for things which are indubitable [Leibniz] |