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Events as Recurrables

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Analysis and Metaphysics

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy ((PSSP,volume 4))

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It is philosophically important to discover the essential nature of events.1 Events are important to philosophers as well as to plain men. Some philosophers claim that the terms of a causal relation are events. Some ask whether we perceive events in the way we perceive chairs. Others say that some events ought to occur. And of course others say that there are no events: that is, that the true ontology denies that events exist.

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  1. Roderick Chisholm, ‘Events and Propositions’, Nous IV (1970), 15–24.

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  2. I specify these predicates in the manner recommended in: Benson Mates, Elementary Logic,2nd. ed., New York, 1972, p. 77; except that I use pairs of parentheses instead of circles in what Mates calls the English predicates.

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  3. Unpubl. diss. (Brown University, 1971) by Major L. Johnson, Jr., `A Contribution Toward a Non-substantial Theory of Times’, pp. 15–17.

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  4. C. W.Misner, K. S. Thorne, and J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation,San Francisco, 1973, p. 19, Section 1.3. For the interpretation of this passage, and for consultation on the idea of time in contemporary physics I am indebted to Thomas Weston.

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  5. Johnson’s dissertation, pp. 92–94.

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  6. Ibid.,pp. 53–59 and pp. 89–91.

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  1. University of Southern California, USA

    Major L. Johnson Jr.

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  1. University of Arizona, USA

    Keith Lehrer

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© 1975 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland

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Johnson, M.L. (1975). Events as Recurrables. In: Lehrer, K. (eds) Analysis and Metaphysics. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9098-8_12

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