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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents' and 'Events as property exemplifications'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

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How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated [Kim, by Schaffer,J]

8976	If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract [Simons on Kim]

8975	Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements [Kim, by Simons]

8974	Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons]

8977	Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties [Simons on Kim]

8980	Kim's theory results in too many events [Simons on Kim]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there [William of Ockham]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]