 This position doesn’t necessarily preclude one from admitting that absences can stand in some cause-like relation; for instance, Dowe (2000, 2001) develops an account of ersatz causation (causation*) which relates absences, even though he denies that causation proper ever relates absences. Others are unmoved because they think that absences are events. For instance, a Kimian could take Anna’s failure to water her plant to be her exemplification of a negative property (the property of not watering her plant) throughout some time interval. Alternatively, Hart and Honoré propose that