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| 18438 | Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states |
| 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. | |||
| From: Willard Quine (on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking' [1978], p.98) | |||
| A reaction: Is this causation, identity, or baffling supervenience? |