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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Getting Causes from Powers' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

14562

A process is unified as an expression of a collection of causal powers [Mumford/Anjum]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

14541

Events are essentially changes; property exemplifications are just states of affairs [Mumford/Anjum]

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]