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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Preface to 'De Revolutionibus'' and 'Process Philosophy'

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6 ideas

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

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Process philosophy places the dynamic nature of being at the centre of our theories [Seibt]

19479

Reductionists identify processes by their 'owner', but tornadoes etc. are processes without owners [Seibt]

19481

Traditionally small things add up to processes, but quantum mechanics reverses this [Seibt]

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

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

15282

Facts should be deducible from the theory and initial conditions, and prefer the simpler theory [Osiander, by Harré/Madden]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

10364

Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]