Full Idea
Nothing happens in the world, not the flutter of an eyelid, not the flicker of a thought, without some redistribution of microphysical states.
Gist of Idea
Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states
Source
Willard Quine (on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking' [1978], p.98)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.98
A Reaction
Is this causation, identity, or baffling supervenience?