Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hippolytus, John Bacon and Donald C. Williams

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

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Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]

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A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]

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Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]