Second, since Chisholm has banished times from his ontology, there are no times in a Chisholmian state. In this respect, Chisholm’s view differs from Kim’s. This might seem to leave open the possibility that a Chisholmian state could occur for a while, then stop occurring, and then start occurring again. If a state could do such a thing, then states would be relevantly like the now-banished states of affairs. But Chisholm denies this possibility. He says that if he was reading earlier, then stopped reading, and then started reading again, we have two distinct states with Chisholm as substrate and reading as content. Since there are no “times” Chisholm is careful to avoid saying that what distinguishes these two states is their time of occurrence. When we say, informally, that an event recurs, all we mean is that its substrate has had its content before.