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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Process Metaphysics' and 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?'

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4 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]

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

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Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher]

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]

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]