5 ideas
8979 | Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons] |
8981 | Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons] |
8973 | Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
16745 | No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R] |