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Single Idea 8295

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

Full Idea

Why cannot a certain trope 'float free' of the trope-bundle to which it belongs and migrate to another bundle?

Gist of Idea

Why cannot a trope float off and join another bundle?

Source

E.J. Lowe (The Possibility of Metaphysics [1998], 9.8)

Book Reference

Lowe,E.J.: 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' [OUP 2001], p.207


A Reaction

Tropes are said to be dependent on their possessors, but at the same time to exist as particulars. Lowe's suggestion is that you can't have it both ways. A particular sphericity with no sphere does not even make sense.