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Ideas for 'The Fixation of Belief', 'Structures and Structuralism in Phil of Maths' and 'On the Elements of Being: I'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 6. Mereological Nominalism

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A nominalist might avoid abstract objects by just appealing to mereological sums [Reck/Price]