6 ideas
8979 | Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons] |
8981 | Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons] |
8973 | Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |