Events, their names, and their synchronic structure

We present in this paper a novel ontological theory of events whose central tenet is the Aristotelian distinction between object that changes and actual subject change, which what we call an individual quality. While Kimian tradition are individuated by triple ? o , P t ?, where object, property, interval time, for us simplest qualitative changes, q quality inhering or one its parts. Detaching individuation from property they exemplify results fine-grained keeps metaphysics semantics clearly separate, lies multiplicative unitarian approaches. discuss then way language refers to events, observing that, most cases, event descriptions refer complex, cognitively relevant clusters co-occurring exhibit synchronic structure depending on described. Contra Bennett, who famously argued names ultimately depends “local context unprincipled intuitions”, show how lexicon provides systematic principles individuating such classifying them into kinds. Finally, address some open challenges locative manner modifiers.