Tropes in space.
Tropes are particular features of concrete objects. Properties-the extensions of predicates-are primitive resemblance classes of tropes. Friends of tropes have been criticized for failing to answer three questions. First, are there fundamental items other than tropes? Second, what criteria determine...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 167; no. 2; pp. 453 - 473 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2014
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