Gary & All,
Just off-hand, you might look into the way the term "event" is used in
probability and statistics, and the technical distinction that is made between
"event" and "occurrence". I'm pretty sure the terms have been used that way
since Boole, at least, if not since the time of Fermat and Pascal.
Regards,
Jon
Gary Fuhrman wrote:
Gary R, Clark, Stephen, lists,
Clark, I can't comment on Davidson because I haven't read him. But as for
Peirce's usage of "event", it never occurred to me that it means anything
different than the usual vernacular meaning: an event is something that
actually happens.
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