How Do Processes Work?

This paper focuses upon the notion of process that is allegedly an ‘ongoing’ continuant-like occurrent (or occurrent-like continuant) and that attracts growing attention in formal ontology and in philosophy. We argue on closer examination that underlying ideas behind processes may be at least as well explicable through a fuller exploitation of existing categories and relations as in terms of the distinctive ontological category of processes.

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