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    It is not the case that If events must be posited as primitive referential objects to capture the logical structure of ordinary causal claims, occurrences have referential autonomy Strawson's view cannot accommodate.

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    • 1.Events can be analyzed as facts about object-changes without positing them as primitive ontological categories beyond Strawson's particulars.
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    • 2.The logical structure of causal claims can be captured using quantification over circumstances or variable assignments without autonomous events.
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    • 3.Positing events as primitives raises its own problems: identity conditions, abstract versus concrete events, and regress in event causation.
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    • 1.Causal claims like 'the collision caused the crash' require events as direct referents, not just object properties or facts.
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    • 2.Strawson's framework reduces events to particularized properties of objects, making them dependent on substances rather than autonomous.
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    • 3.Events have spatiotemporal boundaries and causal powers independent of any single object's existence or description.
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