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All the ideas for 'Events', 'Entity and Identity' and 'Neutral Relations'

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8 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 / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

14219

Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

14217

The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

14216

The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

14218

A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

14220

Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

16980

We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

16979

It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]