Full Idea
The trope theorist cannot explain how a number of tropes resemble each other.
Gist of Idea
Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other
Source
report of Bertrand Russell (On Relations of Universals and Particulars [1911]) by Stephen Mumford - Dispositions 07.6
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.160
A Reaction
[My 13,000th Idea: 31/10/11] Every theory is left with something it cannot explain. Is it likely that we could come up with an explanation of resemblance? It seems like a combination of identity in the physics, and identity in the brain mechanisms.