Tropes: properties, objects, and mental causation
Presents a defense of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--and of trope bundle theory as the best accounts of properites and objects. Advocates a specific brand of trope nominalism, Natural Class Trope Nominalism, which rejects the existence of universals, and holds that the nature of each individual trope is determined by its membership in various natural classes of tropes (in contrast with the view that a trope's nature is logically prior to those class memberships).
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- Full title :Tropes : properties, objects, and mental causation / Douglas Ehring.
Summary
Presents a defense of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--and of trope bundle theory as the best accounts of properites and objects. Advocates a specific brand of trope nominalism, Natural Class Trope Nominalism, which rejects the existence of universals, and holds that the nature of each individual trope is determined by its membership in various natural classes of tropes (in contrast with the view that a trope's nature is logically prior to those class memberships).
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:250 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199608539, 0199608539
- oclc:ocn699767148
- LC Classification:BD460.T76
- Dewey Decimal:111
Table of Contents
pt. I. Tropes. Distinguishing particulars from universals -- Why believe in tropes? -- The individuation of tropes -- Bundle theory -- Tropes and mental causation -- pt. II. Natural class trope nominalism. Why natural class tropes? -- The classic objections to natural class trope nominalism -- The determination objections.
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