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On Events: Individuation, Exemplification, and Instantiation. This paper examines several philosophical concepts related to events and event substantiation.

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Antone S. Perreira Metaphysics Essay 2 On Events: Individuation, Exemplification, and Instantiation Was Brutus's killing of Caesar a singular event, or in fact a plurality of events taken in context to one another? The concept, and ontological implications of answering this question are vast, and present philosophers with an array of possibilities in exploring the nature and metaphysical breadth of events. General consensus has been reached on the subject relative to the characterization of events as …

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…of concurrent instantiations across time. Works Cited Kim, Jaegwon. "Events as Property Exemplifications." Metaphysics, Contemporary Readings. Ed. Steven Hales. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999. 336-47. Davidson, Donald. "The Individuation of Events." Metaphysics, Contemporary Readings. Ed. Steven Hales. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999. 325-35. Bennett, Jonathan. "Introduction to Events." Metaphysics, Contemporary Readings. Ed. Steven Hales. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999. 319-24. Van Cleve, James. "Mereological Essentialism, Mereological Conjunctivism, and Identity Through Time." Metaphysics, Contemporary Readings. Ed. Steven Hales. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999. 482-92.

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