On some views, only changes in the form of acquiring or losing a property can constitute events, like the lawn's becoming dry.
[1] According to others, there are also events that involve nothing but the retaining of a property, e.g. the lawn's staying wet.
[1][2] Events are usually defined as particulars that, unlike universals, cannot repeat at different times.
[4][5] Traditionally, metaphysicians tended to emphasize static being over dynamic events.
A unique event is defined by two principles: The existence condition states “
Other problems exist within Kim's theory, as he never specified what properties were (e.g. universals, tropes, natural classes, etc.).
They are among the important properties, relative to the theory, in terms of which lawful regularities can be discovered, described, and explained.
The basic parameters in terms of which the laws of the theory are formulated would, on this view, give us our basic generic events, and the usual logical, mathematical, and perhaps other types of operations on them would yield complex, defined generic events.
We commonly recognize such properties as motion, colors, temperatures, weights, pushing, and breaking, as generic events and states, but we must view this against the background of our common-sense explanatory and predictive scheme of the world around us.
David Lewis theorized that events are merely spatiotemporal regions and properties (i.e. membership of a class).
This theory entails modal realism, which assumes possible worlds exist; worlds are defined as sets containing all objects that exist as a part of that set.
Some philosophers have attempted to remove possible worlds, and reduce them to other entities.
Secondly, there exist regions that are subsets of possible worlds and thirdly, events are not structured by an essential time.
This is because his definition of the event violates the prohibition against self-belonging (in other words, it is a set-theoretical definition which violates set theory's rules of consistency), thus does not count as extant on its own.
[11] Williams also wrote, "From the point of view of the difference between two possible worlds, the event is all important".
Events are distinguished by the intensity of this revolution, rather than the types of freedom or chance.
"[13] In 1988 Deleuze published a magazine article "Signes et événements"[14] In his book Nietszche and Philosophy, he addresses the question "Which one is beautiful?"
In the preface to the English translation he wrote: The Danish philosopher Ole Fogh Kirkeby deserves mentioning, as he has written a comprehensive trilogy about the event, or in Danish "begivenheden".
In the first work of the trilogy "Eventum tantum – begivenhedens ethos"[16] (Eventum tantum - the ethos of the event) he distinguishes between three levels of the event, inspired from Nicholas of Cusa: Eventum tantum as non aliud, the alma-event and the proto-event.