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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Mechanism, purpose and explan. exclusion' and 'Modal Logic as Metaphysics'

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4 ideas

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]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects

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If talking donkeys are possible, something exists which could be a talking donkey [Williamson, by Cameron]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation

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Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim]

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

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