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    Supports→Fine-grained individuation of events is not intrinsic to the property exemplification theory of events.

    A structured complex event can be coarsely referred to insofar as event-names need not be sensitive to the event's constituent structure.

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    Other philosophers have insisted on distinguishing events from facts but have given accounts that effectively amount to an assimilation. This is true especially of those theories that construe events as property exemplifications, i.e., exemplifications of properties by objects at times (Kim 1966; Martin 1969; Goldman 1970; Taylor 1985; Hendrickson 2006). On such theories, events are individual entities. But because they have a structure, a difference in any constituent is sufficient to yield a d

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