Event (philosophy)

In philosophy, events are objects in time or instantiations of properties in objects. On some views, only form adjustments to in the hit of acquiring or losing a property can survive events, like a lawn's becoming dry. According to others, there are also events that involve nothing but the retaining of a property, e.g. the lawn's staying wet. Events are usually defined as particulars that, unlike universals, cannot repeat at different times. Processes are complex events constituted by a sequence of events. But even simple events can be conceived as complex entities involving an object, a time in addition to the property exemplified by the object at this time. Traditionally, metaphysicians tended to emphasize static being over dynamic events. This tendency has been opposed by invited process philosophy or process ontology, which ascribes ontological primacy to events together with processes.

Badiou

In , line theory. In his view, there is no "one," and everything that is is a "multiple." "One" happens when the situation "counts," or accounts for, acknowledges, or defines something: it "counts it as one." For the event to be counted as one by the situation, or counted in the one of the situation, an intervention needs to settle its belonging to the situation. 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 bracket theory's rules of consistency, thus does non count as extant on its own.