Lexicon of Arguments

 

V 191
Disjunction/Lewis: each event can be described as a disjunction. But Go-or-talk that cannot be taken as the cause. >Events/Lewis.
V 212
Disjunction/events/Lewis: an event cannot be disjunction of events, because then the (double) event would always have to occur in every region where one or the other disjunct occurs, i.e. it would have to happen twice in a possible world - impossible.
V 263
Events are not disjunctive when different definitions are possible, but then the event still does not consist in their disjunction.
V 266
Definition disjunction of events/Lewis: e is a disjunction of events f1, f2 .. iff. e necessarily occurs in a region, iff. either f1 or f2 or... occurs here - as a set the disjunction is simply the unification - some events are disjunctions of other events.
E.g. stamping - of left and right foot - the disjuncts must not vary too much - the disjunctions as a whole are in non-causal counterfactual dependence on their referents, the disjuncts - without one, the whole thing would not be - but the individual disjuncts are not in this counterfactual dependence.
Disjunction: not based on different definitions.
E.g. Disposition: Breaking of the window could be caused by many things - none of the possible events is significantly associated with the fragility - if there are no extrinsic disjunctive events, there may still be disjunctive truths - and this can be explained causally.
>Disposition/Lewis.