Events And Their Names

Download or read book Events and Their Names written by Jonathan Bennett and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of events and their places in our language and thought, Bennett propounds and defends views about what kind of item an event is, how the language of events works, and about how these two themes are interrelated. He argues that most of the supposedly metaphysical literature is really about the semantics of their names, and that the true metaphysic of events--known by Leibniz and rediscovered by Kim--has not been universally accepted because it has been tarred with the brush of a false semantic theory.