Pastism and Events

Elsewhere I have developed a growing universe theory of time according to which the only events that exist are past events (I call this theory ‘pastism’) (Diekemper 2014a). I argued that the existence (simpliciter) of past events can be accounted for in terms of the existence of thisnesses of past events. I have also elsewhere developed an ontology of thisness which allows for their employment in this way (Diekemper 2015). My goal in the current paper is to develop a theory of events which coheres with both of the earlier accounts and which also has independent motivation.