Full Idea
Trope Nominalism says properties are classes or sets of exactly similar or resembling tropes, where tropes are what we might called 'property-tokens' or 'particularized properties'.
Gist of Idea
Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars
Source
Cynthia Macdonald (Varieties of Things [2005], Ch.6)
Book Reference
Macdonald,Cynthia: 'Varieties of Things' [Blackwell 2005], p.234
A Reaction
We still seem to have the problem of 'resembling' here, and we certainly have the perennial problem of why any given particular should be placed in any particular set. See Idea 7959.
Related Idea
Idea 7959 How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]