Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'The Individuation of Events' and 'De Essentia'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

18914

Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

14602

Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

14004

We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

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A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself [Plantinga, by Westerhoff]