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[from 'Causation and Laws of Nature' by Jonathan Schaffer, in 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes ]

Full Idea

Tropes can be identified with events.

Gist of Idea

Tropes are the same as events

Source

Jonathan Schaffer (Causation and Laws of Nature [2008], n17)

Book Reference

'Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics', ed/tr. Sider/Hawthorne/Zimmerman [Blackwell 2008], p.101


A Reaction

This is presumably on the view of events, associated with Kim, as instantiations of properties. This idea is a new angle on tropes and events which had never occurred to me.