Single Idea 14327

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes]

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.