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[from 'A Survey of Metaphysics' by E.J. Lowe, in 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes ]

Full Idea

The trope theorist says that a cushion is just a 'bundle' of tropes, such as roundness, blueness and softness.

Gist of Idea

Maybe a cushion is just a bundle of tropes, such as roundness, blueness and softness

Source

E.J. Lowe (A Survey of Metaphysics [2002], p.362)

Book Reference

Lowe,E.J.: 'A Survey of Metaphysics' [OUP 2002], p.362


A Reaction

Certainly if you dispense with the idea of substance (which is clearly bad science even if it is good metaphysics), something like this is what remains of a cushion, though it sounds more epistemological than ontological. Only philosophers care about this