In their paper ‘Degrees as Kinds’, Anderson and Morzycki, demonstrate how certain constructions in a range of languages treat kinds, manners, and degrees alike. Their proposal is to identify degrees with kinds of states and they consider states to be interchangeable with tropes. In these comments, I will raise some issues about the interchangeability of (concrete) states and tropes as well as the category of concrete states as well as Anderson and Morzycki's analysis of the comparative
Many have written about trope ontology, but relatively few have considered its implications for some...
The treatise attempts to approach and deal with some of the most fundamental problems facing anyone ...
• Thesis to be defended: there are no tropes. • General argument: there are no good way to...
In their paper ‘Degrees as Kinds’, Anderson and Morzycki, demonstrate how certain constructions in a...
It has become common to analyse comparatives by using degrees, so that John is happier than Mary wou...
I describe a way of handling comparative adjectives "a is P-er than b", in terms of degrees "a has P...
Trope theory is an increasingly prominent contender in contemporary debates about the existence and ...
[1] defense and elaboration of Maienborn’s distinction between abstract (‘Kimian’) states and concre...
Degree‐sentences, i.e. sentences that seem to refer to things that allow of degrees, are widely used...
In this article, we propose a new trope nominalist conception of determinate and determinable kinds ...
International audienceThis paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the ...
According to the so-called difference thesis, unlike natural kinds, some social kinds depend ontolog...
Many have written about trope ontology, but relatively few have considered its implications for some...
The treatise attempts to approach and deal with some of the most fundamental problems facing anyone ...
• Thesis to be defended: there are no tropes. • General argument: there are no good way to...
In their paper ‘Degrees as Kinds’, Anderson and Morzycki, demonstrate how certain constructions in a...
It has become common to analyse comparatives by using degrees, so that John is happier than Mary wou...
I describe a way of handling comparative adjectives "a is P-er than b", in terms of degrees "a has P...
Trope theory is an increasingly prominent contender in contemporary debates about the existence and ...
[1] defense and elaboration of Maienborn’s distinction between abstract (‘Kimian’) states and concre...
Degree‐sentences, i.e. sentences that seem to refer to things that allow of degrees, are widely used...
In this article, we propose a new trope nominalist conception of determinate and determinable kinds ...
International audienceThis paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the ...
According to the so-called difference thesis, unlike natural kinds, some social kinds depend ontolog...
Many have written about trope ontology, but relatively few have considered its implications for some...
The treatise attempts to approach and deal with some of the most fundamental problems facing anyone ...
• Thesis to be defended: there are no tropes. • General argument: there are no good way to...