Add to ORKGThe fact that particulars instantiate properties has received two different kinds of explanation employing tropes. On the one hand, Campbell's theory of tropes makes use of just one kind of basic entity. On the other hand, Martin's theory appeals to two different sorts of basic entities. Ontological economy regards notwithstanding, Martin's theory offers a better prospect for the task of giving a satisfactory answer to the main objections that have been posed against trope theory in general. I will discuss some problems concerning regressa and the spatio-temporal location of tropes
Abstract: If you think that there are concrete particulars and that concrete particulars have a comp...
Traditional ontologies of tropes have proposed that tropes should be construed as ‘simple entities’...
Abstract in Undetermined Why should one hold that the world is a world of tropes? Or, more generally...
Trope theory is an increasingly prominent contender in contemporary debates about the existence and ...
The treatise attempts to approach and deal with some of the most fundamental problems facing anyone ...
Trope theory is the view that the world is a world of abstract particular qualities. But if all ther...
In the present paper, I argue that a one-category ontology, based upon individual property-instances...
• Thesis to be defended: there are no tropes. • General argument: there are no good way to...
The category of trope, i.e. an individual property, usually functions in theories that reject the ex...
Many have written about trope ontology, but relatively few have considered its implications for some...
According to standard trope nominalism, there are simple tropes that do not have parts or multiply d...
Trope theory is a philosophy that famously ?calls for completion in a dozen directions at once.? It ...
In this short paper I consider Professor Bence Nanay’s suggestion that representationalism can be su...
A standard interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics holds that sensible particulars are copies of Forms...
Abstract: If you think that there are concrete particulars and that concrete particulars have a comp...
Traditional ontologies of tropes have proposed that tropes should be construed as ‘simple entities’...
Abstract in Undetermined Why should one hold that the world is a world of tropes? Or, more generally...
Trope theory is an increasingly prominent contender in contemporary debates about the existence and ...
The treatise attempts to approach and deal with some of the most fundamental problems facing anyone ...
Trope theory is the view that the world is a world of abstract particular qualities. But if all ther...
In the present paper, I argue that a one-category ontology, based upon individual property-instances...
• Thesis to be defended: there are no tropes. • General argument: there are no good way to...
The category of trope, i.e. an individual property, usually functions in theories that reject the ex...
Many have written about trope ontology, but relatively few have considered its implications for some...
According to standard trope nominalism, there are simple tropes that do not have parts or multiply d...
Trope theory is a philosophy that famously ?calls for completion in a dozen directions at once.? It ...
In this short paper I consider Professor Bence Nanay’s suggestion that representationalism can be su...
A standard interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics holds that sensible particulars are copies of Forms...
Abstract: If you think that there are concrete particulars and that concrete particulars have a comp...
Traditional ontologies of tropes have proposed that tropes should be construed as ‘simple entities’...
Abstract in Undetermined Why should one hold that the world is a world of tropes? Or, more generally...