The Ontology of Mind: Events, Processes, and States
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1. Vendler and Kenny 1. Vendler and Kenny
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2. Types of Verb versus Types of Predication 2. Types of Verb versus Types of Predication
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3. Aspect 3. Aspect
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4. Nominalization Transcriptions: Events and Processes 4. Nominalization Transcriptions: Events and Processes
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5. Non-Paradigmatic Events 5. Non-Paradigmatic Events
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6. Event and Process as Ontological Categories 6. Event and Process as Ontological Categories
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7. Temporal Shape 7. Temporal Shape
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3 The Temporal Strategy: Time and Aspect
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Published:23 March 2000
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Abstract
This chapter begins by trying to build on the suggestion, adumbrated at the end of Chapter 2, that what is common and peculiar to events, and what distinguishes them from states, is a certain kind of ‘temporal shape’ — to exploit a so-called ‘temporal strategy’. The temporal strategy appears promising as far as the events needed by the philosophy of mind are concerned, for the following reason. There is room for dispute about whether or not, and in what sense, mental phenomena are physical, whether they are spatially located, and whether they have subjects, and if so, what those subjects might be. The chapter tries to shed some light on the differences between events, processes, and states by drawing on the phenomenon of verb aspect. Though some insight is gained into the category of state by this discussion, the main focus of the chapter is the event-process distinction. It shows how the invocation of aspect can permit us to regard the distinction between events and processes as akin, in some respects, to the familiar distinction between substantial objects and the matter of which they are made.
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