Re: selbri as sumti

[ucleaar <ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk>]

Jorge:
> >  The x1 is an individual event, with, as you
> > say, determinate sumti, but also with determinate time. The x2
> > obviously is not the same event, & I don't see why (especially if
> > we reason from a glico notion of recurrence) it has to be an event
> > identical to the x1 in all respects other than tense.
> Maybe because the time in which it happens is one of the least important
> identifying characteristics of an event, so that two that only differ
> in that are almost perceived as the same, just like today's John is
> almost perceived as the same as yesterday's John.

There are of course a multiplicity of possible differences between
individual events. Their places, their causes, their results, their speed,
their rhythm, etc. etc. may all differ.

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