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Full Idea
'Qualitons' or 'relatons' (quality and relation tropes) are held to belong to the same individual if they are all 'compresent' with one another.
Gist of Idea
Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes
Source
John Bacon (Tropes [2008], §4)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.4
A Reaction
There is a perennial problem with bundles - how to distinguish accidental compresence (like people in a lift) from united compresence (like people who make a family).
| 10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
| 10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
| 10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |
| 10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |