Full Idea
If one believes that fundamental physics is the place to look for the truths about universals (or tropes or natural sets), then one may find that physics is telling us there are no such things.
Gist of Idea
Fundamental physics seems to suggest there are no such things as properties
Source
Tim Maudlin (The Metaphysics within Physics [2007], 3.2)
Book Reference
Maudlin,Tim: 'The Metaphysics within Physics' [OUP 2007], p.96
A Reaction
His prior discussion of quantum chromodynamics suggests, to me, merely that properties can be described in terms of vectors etc., and remains neutral on the ontology - but then I am blinded by science.
Related Idea
Idea 16262 Sparse properties rest either on universals, or on tropes, or on primitive naturalness [Lewis, by Maudlin]