9 ideas
| 8440 | Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett] |
| 8439 | Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett] |
| 14381 | A statue is essentially the statue, but its lump is not essentially a statue, so statue isn't lump [Yablo, by Rocca] |
| 1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
| 8441 | Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett] |
| 8436 | Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett] |
| 8435 | Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett] |
| 8438 | A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett] |
| 8437 | The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett] |