Events as shadowy entities

Logic and Logical Philosophy 2 (5):35-53 (1994)
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The general background of this paper _ is causal theory. Events are involved in causal theory in a very natural way: People want to assert causal sentences and in at least some of these sentences terms occur describing events

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10.12775/llp.1994.003

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The individuation of events.Donald Davidson - 1970 - In Carl G. Hempel, Donald Davidson & Nicholas Rescher, Essays in honor of Carl G. Hempel. Dordrecht,: D. Reidel. pp. 216-34.
Events.David Lewis - 1986 - In Philosophical Papers, Volume II. New York, US: Oxford University Press. pp. 241-269.
Events and their descriptions: some considerations.Jaegwon Kim - 1970 - In Carl G. Hempel, Donald Davidson & Nicholas Rescher, Essays in honor of Carl G. Hempel. Dordrecht,: D. Reidel. pp. 198--215.

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