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| 4784 | Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation |
| Full Idea: Salmon argues that processes rather than events should be the basic entities in a theory of physical causation. | |||
| From: report of Wesley Salmon (Causal Connections [1984]) by Stathis Psillos - Causation and Explanation §4.2 | |||
| A reaction: It increasingly strikes me that the concept of a 'process' ought to be ontologically basic. Edelman says the mind is a process. An 'event' is too loose, and a 'fact' too vague, and heaven knows what Hume meant by an 'object'. |