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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Action, Intention and Reason' and 'Events'

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10 ideas

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

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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis]

15561

The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis]

15565

Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis]

15566

Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis]

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

15564

An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

15563

Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

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Actions are not mere effects of reasons, but are under their control [Audi,R]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

15562

Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]