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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Individuation of Events' and 'Words without Objects'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

14602

Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

14004

We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

12792

The category of stuff does not suit reference [Laycock]

12799

Descriptions of stuff are neither singular aggregates nor plural collections [Laycock]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures

12818

We shouldn't think some water retains its identity when it is mixed with air [Laycock]