Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Events', 'In Defence of Three-Dimensionalism' and 'The Nature of Universals and Propositions'

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7 ideas

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

9413	An event is a change in or to an object [Lombard, by Mumford]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8511	Stout first explicitly proposed that properties and relations are particulars [Stout,GF, by Campbell,K]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism

12295

3-D says things are stretched in space but not in time, and entire at a time but not at a location [Fine,K]

12298

Genuine motion, rather than variation of position, requires the 'entire presence' of the object [Fine,K]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

12296

4-D says things are stretched in space and in time, and not entire at a time or at a location [Fine,K]

18882

You can ask when the wedding was, but not (usually) when the bride was [Fine,K, by Simons]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

12297

Three-dimensionalist can accept temporal parts, as things enduring only for an instant [Fine,K]