Full Idea
For Humeans the world is a world primarily of events.
Gist of Idea
For Humeans the world is a world primarily of events
Source
Stephen Mumford (Laws in Nature [2004], 03.6)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Laws in Nature' [Routledge 2006], p.49
A Reaction
An event is not sufficiently precise or determinate to form a basis for an ontological system. I can see that we are all mainly interested in events, but I'm not sure anyone could see them as constituting the world. Isn't their world just 'impressions'?