8 ideas
8507 | Some think of reality as made of things; I prefer facts or states of affairs [Armstrong] |
10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
8506 | Particulars and properties are distinguishable, but too close to speak of a relation [Armstrong] |
8505 | Refusal to explain why different tokens are of the same type is to be an ostrich [Armstrong] |
10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |