ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the causal properties of events, on the properties in virtue of which events are changes in the objects they are changes in, and on the properties in virtue of which events occur at the times at which they occur. It argues that atomic events divided into species whose members shared an essence determined by the portion of the atomic quality space the movement through which was that atomic event. The chapter shows that at least some of the events that actually occur are causally related. Atomic events essentially belong to the atomic event types they in fact belong to. An event whose subject is an object with parts and which is composed of changes in that object’s parts must be a change in that object. Such types are describable in terms of the properties belonging to the atomic quality spaces those events are movements in.
