Full Idea
Davidson argued that the best linguistic theory of adverbial modification assigns truth-conditions quantifying over events; thus we must embrace an ontology of events.
Gist of Idea
If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events
Source
report of Donald Davidson (The Logical Form of Action Sentences [1967]) by Theodore Sider - Writing the Book of the World 07.8
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.122
A Reaction
Sider is critical and I agree. This is just the sort of linguistic manoeuvre that gets philosophy a bad name. As Yablo remarks, we have a terrible tendency to want to thingify everything.