Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Disquisitions', 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences' and 'The Dappled World'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

15002

If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16668

Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]