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19043 | Bivalence applies not just to sentences, but that general terms are true or false of each object [Quine] |
18914 | Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen] |
9843 | You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson] |
14602 | Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
14004 | We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne] |
8278 | The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson] |
19042 | Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine] |
5451 | Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner] |