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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causes and Events: Mackie on causation' and 'Events as property exemplifications'

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10 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

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

4779	For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times [Kim, by Psillos]

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How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated [Kim, by Schaffer,J]

8974	Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons]

8975	Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements [Kim, by Simons]

8976	If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract [Simons on Kim]

8977	Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties [Simons on Kim]

8980	Kim's theory results in too many events [Simons on Kim]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]