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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Aesthetics: problems in the philosophy of criticism' and 'Scientific Thought'

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8 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]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
11842 If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]
14759 A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
20436 Art leads to mental health, and mental clarity [Beardsley,M, by Carroll,N]
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]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block
8160 The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]
14609 We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series
22933 We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]