Full Idea
Are tropes transferable? ...If tropes are not dependent on their bearers, that is a trope-theoretic version of Platonism.
Gist of Idea
Are tropes transferable? If they are, that is a version of Platonism
Source
George Molnar (Powers [1998], 1.4.6)
Book Reference
Molnar,George: 'Powers: a study in metaphysics', ed/tr. Mumford,Stephen [OUP 2003], p.43
A Reaction
These are the sort of beautifully simple questions that we pay philosophers to come up with. If they are transferable, what was the loose bond which connected them? If they aren't, then what individuates them?