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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Response to David Armstrong' and 'Events'

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9 ideas

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

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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]

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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]

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]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Space, time, and some other basics, are not causal powers [Ellis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

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

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