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  1. Events occur, individuals exist, and properties are instantiated--namelyinstantiated—namely, in events and/or individuals.

  2. An individual exists as soon and as long as the properties that individuate it are instantiated in some sequence of events. 

       3. Thus one may distinguish between the essence of an individual, meaning by that the properties that individuate it; the existence of an individual, meaning by that the instantiation of its individuating properties in some sequence of events; and the actuality of an individual, meaning by that the sequence of events in which the properties individuating it are instantiated.

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        6. Any event, ordinary or extraordinary, is internally related to all preceding events, ordinary and extraordinary, and thus also to: (1) the restricted or differentiated possibility both of itself and of all contemporary and succeeding events, ordinary and extraordinary; (2) unrestricted or undifferentiated possibility; and (3) the transcendental structure of reality that is the least common denominator of unrestricted or undifferentiated possibility. Conversely, any event, ordinary or extraordinary, is externally related to all succeeding events, ordinary and extraordinary, as are also: (1) the restricted or differentiated possibility both of itself and of all contemporary and succeeding events, ordinary and extraordinary; (2) unrestricted or undifferentated undifferentiated possibility; and (3) the transcendental structure of reality that is the least common denominator of unrestricted or undifferentiated possibility.   

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