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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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8 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

16007

I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

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Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

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We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

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

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

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]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]