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    It is not the case that Strawson's particular-based ontology and Broad's process view both treat events as irreducible wholes that genuinely persist through qualitative change without decomposition into parts.

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    • 1.Events have internal temporal structure (beginning, middle, end) that decomposition into phases captures better than holistic views do.
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    • 2.Qualitative change requires identity conditions distinguishing one event from another—holism provides no clear criterion for event individuation.
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    • 3.Process views often contradict themselves by invoking event constituents (stages, aspects) while denying decomposition into real parts.
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    • 1.Objects persist through qualitative change (e.g., a ball changes color), so events should too via the same metaphysical principle.
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    • 2.Treating events as wholes avoids infinite regress problems that arise when decomposing events into temporal parts or sub-events.
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    • 3.Our linguistic practice refers to single events ("the war") as unified entities despite internal changes, suggesting ontological irreducibility.
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